Jonathan Cottrell

• BA, University of Oxford

• PhD, New York University

Jonathan Cottrell’s research focuses on the history of modern philosophy. He is also interested in epistemology and philosophy of mind, and in the history and philosophy of psychology.

History of Modern Philosophy, Hume

• Naturalisms in Modern Philosophy: Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd. Co-edited with Aaron Garrett. New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2027)
• ‘Shepherd’s Non-Sceptical Solution of Hume’s Doubts’. In J. Cottrell and A. Garrett (eds.), Naturalisms in Modern Philosophy: Spinoza, Hume, and Shepherd. New York: Routledge (forthcoming 2027)
• ‘Spatial Perception and the Unity of Consciousness: Comments on Falkenstein’s Consciousness, Time, and Scepticism in Hume’s Thought‘. Hume Studies 51(1): 213–224 (2026)
• ‘David Hume and T. H. Huxley on Language, Thought, and Animal Minds’. In B. Ehli and M. Leisinger (eds.), British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Themes from Kenneth P. Winkler, 167–186. New York: Routledge (2026)
• ‘The Priority of Passive Reasoning’. In S. Stapleford and V. Wagner (eds.), Hume and Contemporary Epistemology, 75–99. New York: Routledge (2025)
• ‘Natural Teleology in Hume’s ‘Sceptical Solution”. Journal of Modern Philosophy 6 (2024): doi: <https://doi.org/10.25894/jmp.1901> (2024)
• ‘Representation and Copying in Hume’s Treatise and Later Works’. Ergo 8(4): 83–109. (2021)
• ‘Review of Margaret Watkins, The Philosophical Progress of Hume’s Essays‘. Mind 130(520): 1336–1348. (2021)
• ‘Perceptions, Minds, and Hume’s Self-Doubts: Comments on Ainslie’s Hume’s True Scepticism‘. Hume Studies 45(1&2): 109–119. (2019)
• ‘Unperceived Existence and Hume’s Theory of Ideas’. Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy 9: 167–213. (2019)
• ‘Hume’s Answer to Bayle on the Vacuum’. Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 101(2): 205–236. (2019)
• ‘Hume on Space and Time: A Limited Defence’. In A. Coventry and A. Sager (eds.), The Humean Mind, 83–95. New York: Routledge (2019)
• ‘Review of Timothy M. Costelloe, The Imagination in Hume’s Philosophy: The Canvas of the Mind‘. Journal of the History of Philosophy 57(3): 559–560. (2019)
• ‘Hume on Mental Representation and Intentionality’. Philosophy Compass <https://doi.org/10.1111/phc3.12505> (2018)
• ‘Review of Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Hume‘. British Journal for the History of Philosophy 26(3): 622–625. (2018)
• ‘Review of Graciela de Pierris, Ideas, Evidence, and Method: Hume’s Skepticism and Naturalism concerning Knowledge and Causation‘. The Philosophical Review 126(3): 393–398. (2017)
• ‘Imagination, in Modern Philosophy’. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. (2017)
• ‘A Puzzle about Fictions in the Treatise‘. Journal of the History of Philosophy 54(1): 47–73 (2016)
• ‘Minds, Composition, and Hume’s Skepticism in the Appendix’. The Philosophical Review 124(4): 533–569. (2015)
• ‘David Hume: Imagination’. Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2015)