David W D Owen

Interests

No activities entered.

Courses

Scholarly Contributions

Chapters

• Owen, D. W. (2012). Reason,Belief and the Passions. In Oxford Companion.
  More info

  forthcoming in the Oxford Companion to Hume, edited by Paul Russell;Your Role: sole author;
• Owen, D. W. (2016). Reason,Belief and the Passions. In Oxford Companion.
  More info

  Published in the Oxford Companion to Hume, edited by Paul Russell; appeared February 2016.Your Role: sole author;
• Owen, D. W. (2013). Scepticism with regard to reason; short version. In Humean Readings.
  More info

  contribution to Hume volume edited by Alessio Vaccari and Lorenzo GrecoYour Role: sole researcher and author;
• Owen, D. W. (2009). Hume and the Mechanics of Mind: Impressions, Ideas, and Association.
  More info

  ;Your Role: sole author;Full Citation: â€;

Presentations

• Owen, D. W. (2013, July). Reason Alone. Hume Conference. Brazil: Hume Society.
  More info

  ;Please specify if you select "Other collaborative" : sole author;Full Citation: not applicable;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Owen, D. W. (2013, July). Reason Alone. invited paper for Hume Society Conference, Brazil 2013. Brazil.
• Owen, D. W. (2013, October, 2013). Reason Alone. Department colloquium. Simon Fraser University.
• Owen, D. W. (2009, Dec). Hume and the Limits of Explanation. Shalom conference on Human Nature.
  More info

  This article is based on a conference presentation. The conference was called _On Human Nature_;, and was held at the Shalom center in Jerusalem. Some of the papers will be published in a volume edited by Yoram Hazony, head of the center.;Full Citation: volume based on a selection of the papers presented to the conference;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, 2011-02-01). Reason and Wisdom in the Early Modern Period. Annual Workshop oraganised by Paul Woodruff. Austin, Texas.
  More info

  The theme of the workshop was "Wisdom" and I presented some ideas that emerged in the early modern period;Your Role: sole author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, 2011-04-01). Hume and the Limits of Explanation. Monthly meeting of the Norwegian Academey of Science and Letters. Oslo.
  More info

  To help celebrate the 300th anniversary of Hume's birth, I was invited to give a formal lecture to the Norwegian Academy. This was quite a big deal. There was a reception one day, tea the next day before the lecture, the lecture followed by two brief comments presented by members of the academy, followed by a formal banquet in the Academy's hall.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, 2011-05-01). Hume and the Limits of Human Explanation. Joint UNC/King's College London faculty and graduate conference. Chapel Hill.
  More info

  ;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, 2011-07-01). Reason and the Moral Sentiments. Philosophy in Assos. Assos, Turkey.
  More info

  This annual conference has a theme each year. In 2011, the theme was Hume on Morality and Religion, in celebration of the 300th anniversary of Hume's birth;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, 2011-10-01). Reason in the 3 books of Hume's Treatise. invited to give 3 lectures. Seoul, Korea.
  More info

  1 lecture to the National Committee on Early Modern Philosophy, 2 lectures to the dept at Seoul National University;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: addressed national organization;
• Owen, D. W. (2011, April). Hume and the Limits of Explanation. The Norwegian Academy.
  More info

  This paper has been gone through many complete rewrites. It was first written and presented to a conference in Jerusalem in 2009, the at a conference in Belo Horizonte in 2010, more recently (April 2011) as an invited lecture to The Norwegian Academy, and most recently at a mixed graduate/faculty conference at UNC Each time it has been so heavily rewritten that it may as well have been a new paper.;Full Citation: 2011 Yearbook of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters;Status: Paper in Preparation;
• Owen, D. W. (2010, 2010-08-01). Hume and the Limits of Explanation. Hume Conference. Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
  More info

  A revised version of this paper will be published in a conference volume.;Your Role: sole author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2010, 2011-04-01). Selection and Intentionality. seminar. University of Arizona.
  More info

  ;Your Role: sole author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Owen, D. W. (2009, 2009-03-01). Locke on Sensitive Knowlege. Pacific APA. Vancouver, Canada.
  More info

  Paper presented at a session in honor of Vere Chappell.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2009, 2009-08-01). Comments on Peter Kail's Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy. Hume Society Annual Conference. Halifax, Canada.
  More info

  Author meets Critics session;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2009, 2009-12-01). Hume and the Limits of Explanation. Human Nature Conference. Jerusalem, Israel.
  More info

  A revised version of this paper will be published in a conference volume.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2008, 2008-06-01). My introduction to Hume. Humean Readings. Rome.
  More info

  I addressed the attendees at the Humean Readings Conference (an annual Hume conference that takes place in Rome, and sometimes New York as well) on the origin and growth of my philosophical interest in Hume.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2008, 2008-08-01). Comments on Haruko Inoue on Hume on Calm and Violent Passions. Hume Society Conference, 2008. Iceland.
  More info

  Haruko Inoue gave a paper on Hume on calm and violent passions at the 2008 Hume Society Conference. I commented.;Your Role: sole author;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference/Workshop;
• Owen, D. W. (2008, 2008-09-01). Hume and the Passions. Cambridge Hume Conference. Cambridge, UK.
  More info

  It was at this conference that I gave the paper which, if thereferees are agreeable and my revisions go as plan, will be published in the Kail and Frasca-Spada volume.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;
• Owen, D. W. (2008, 2008-10-01). Scepticism with regard to the senses. Dept. Colloquium. Victoria, British Columbia.
  More info

  department colloquium;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: University;
• Owen, D. W. (2008, 2008-10-01). Scepticism with regard to the senses. Northwest Early Modern Philosophy Seminar. Vancouver.
  More info

  I was invited to talk on a subject of my choosing as the keynote speaker to the Northwest Seminar in Early Modern Philosophy.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Invited/Plenary Speaker;
• Owen, D. W., & none, . (2008, 2008-06-01). Fogelin and Hume's Scepticism. NYU Conference on Scepticism. Florence.
  More info

  I gave a paper on a paper by Robert Fogelin on Hume's scepticism at the NYU Scepticism Conference. Everyone had read Fogelin's paper, and after my paper there was general discussion.;Invited: Yes;Type of Presentation: Academic Conference;

Others

• Owen, D. W. (2015, December). Scepticism with Regard to Reason - long version. Cambridge Companion.
  More info

  The long version of this article has gone through many changes and additions since it was first "accepted" for _The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise_ in 2002 or 2003. The latest version was "accepted" in 2011, and the volume appeared in 2015.
• Owen, D. W. (2011, September). Scepticism with Regard to Reason - long version. Cambridge Companion.
  More info

  The long version of this article has gone through many changes and additions since it was first "accepted" for _The Cambridge Companion to Hume's Treatise_ in 2002 or 2003. The latest version was "accepted" in 2011, and we are all hoping the volume will appear soon.
• Owen, D. W. (2012). Preface.
  More info

  ;Your Role: co-author;Full Citation: Hume Readings (Edizione Di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2012), edited by Lorenzo Greco and Alessio Vaccari;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with colleague in Italy;
• Owen, D. W., & Magri, T. (2012). Hume Readings.
  More info

  Hume Readings (Edizione Di Storia e Letteratura, Rome 2012), edited by Lorenzo Greco and Alessio Vaccari” was really edited by Tito Magri and me. We founded a “Humean Readings” miniconference in Rome several years ago, and thought it would be a good idea to collect some of the better papers in a volume. Once all that was underway, we turned it over to Alessio Vaccari and Lorenzo Greco to finish it off.;Your Role: co-editor;Full Citation: â€;Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Collaborative with colleague in Italy;
• Owen, D. W., & none, . (2012). Scepticism with regard to reason (shorter version).
  More info

  ;Your Role: sole author;Full Citation: â€;
• Owen, D. W., Hoffman, P., & Yaffe, G. (2008). Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell.
  More info

  ;Your Role: one of 3 editors;Full Citation: _Early Modern Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Vere Chappell_, co-edited with Paul Hoffman and Gideon Yaffe (Calgary: Broadview 2008);Other collaborative: Yes;Specify other collaborative: Paul Hoffman is a philosophy professor at University of Caluifornia, Riverside, and Gideon Yaffe is a philosophy and law professor at University of Southern California;