UCD School of Philosophy

BA (Georgetown), MA (North Carolina), DPhil (North Carolina)
Senior Lecturer

Email:  jim.oshea@ucd.ie
Room:  D513
Tel.:  716 8368

 http://ucd-ie.academia.edu/JamesOShea/Papers

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• Kant
• Hume
• Sellars
• Pragmatism
• Epistemology
• Philosophy of Mind

Education
BA (Georgetown University, 1985), MA, Ph.D. (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1987, 1992). 
Ph.D. Thesis (1992):  Problems of Substance: Perception and Object in Hume and Kant. 
Supervisors: Professors Jay F. Rosenberg and Simon Blackburn

Main Publications:

Books:

Forthcoming: An Introduction to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason,Acumen Press  in Britain, and for release in North America by a press to be determined.

2007:  Wilfrid Sellars: Naturalism With a Normative Turn 
in the  Key Contemporary Thinkers  series, Blackwell/Polity Press.  ISBN 0745630030 
Reviewed at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

O'Shea, J and Moran, D (1995)  Reading Kant: The Critique of Pure Reason. 162 pp.  National Distance Education Centre, Dublin City University, 1995.

Articles:

'On the structure of Sellars' Naturalism with a Normative Turn', in  Empiricism, Perceptual Knowledge, Normativity and Realism: Essays on the Anniversary of 'Empiricism and The Philosophy Of Mind' Willem deVries (ed.) Oxford University Press

‘American Philosophy in the Twentieth Century’, in  The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy(Routledge), edited by Dermot Moran (2008).

(2006) ‘Conceptual Connections: Kant and the Twentieth Century Analytic Tradition’.  In the  Blackwell Companion to Kant, edited by Graham Bird (Blackwell)

(2002) ‘Revisiting Sellars on the Myth of the Given,’ in theInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 490-503.

(2000)  ‘Sources of Pluralism in William James.’  In  Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity, edited by Maria Baghramian and Attracta Ingram (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 17-43.

(1997)  'Fictitious Duration and Informative Identity in Hume's Treatise.' In  Hume, eds. John Biro, João Paulo Monteiro and Michael B. Wrigley (Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, Vol. XX, No.2, October 1997), pp. 169-211.

(1997) 'The Needs of Understanding: Kant on Empirical Laws and Regulative Ideals.'  International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2, June 1997, pp. 216-254.

(1996)  'Kantian Matters: the Structure of Permanence.'  Acta Analytica 15, 1996, pp. 67-88.

(1996) 'Hume's Reflective Return to the Vulgar.'  British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 4, No. 2, September 1996, pp. 285-315.

Other Roles:

• Reviews Editor of the  International Journal of Philosophical Studies  since late 2003.


• Treasurer of the international  Irish Philosophical Club.

Some Useful Links:

Kant on the Web':  www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/Kant.html

'The Hume Archive':  www.utm.edu/research/hume/

Hume texts and Links:  www.etext.leeds.ac.uk/hume/

'Problems from Wilfrid Sellars':  www.ditext.com/sellars/

Extremely useful for research is The Philosopher's Index, For UCD on-campus access follow the link from  here.

HIPPIAS search engine for philosophy: hippias.evansville.edu

Excellent philosophy links page:www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Philosophy/links.html