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Miren Boehm

  • Professor, Philosophy

Education

  • PhD. University of California, Irvine.
  • BA. Philosophy and Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
PHILOS 243-202 Moral Problems: Animal Ethics No Meeting Pattern
PHILOS 243-203 Moral Problems: Drugs and Addiction No Meeting Pattern

Teaching Interests

  • Early Modern Philosophy.
  • Religion and Science.
  • Applied Ethics (Abortion, Drugs and Addiction, Animal Ethics, Global Poverty, Capital Punishment, and Euthanasia).

Research Interests

Hume's theoretical and practical philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy (especially Newton and Mary Shepherd), and Contemporary Epistemology (in particular, projectivist theories).

Selected Publications

Boehm, M. (forthcoming). Shepherd and Hume:  Experience and Necessity. Fields, K. (Ed).  Essays on Mary Shepherd: Causation, Mind, and Knowledge. Oxford University Press.
Boehm, M. & Gorham, G. (forthcoming). Buffier on Time, Duration, and Existence. Waldow, A. & Perinetti, D. (Eds). Claude Buffier: Metaphysics, Common Sense, and Sociability. Oxford University Press.
Boehm, M. (2025). The Inconceivability of Newtonian Space and Time. Forsman J. & Slavov M. (Eds). Contemporary Perspectives and Historical Dimensions: A Festschrift in Honor of Jani Hakkarainen. Tempere University, Finland. https://philpapers.org/rec/SLACPA-3     
Boehm M. (2025, online first).  Experimental Philosophy, Blind Submission, and Hume’s Other “Sceptical Principles.” Radcliffe E. (Ed).  Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide. Cambridge Critical Guides. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009218047.008 
Boehm, M. (2025).  A "Magical Power in the Soul": Assessing Hume's Appeal to the Imagination. Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anae062
Boehm, M. (2024). Conceivability as the Standard of Metaphysical Possibility. Stapleford , S. & Wagner, V. (Eds). Hume and Contemporary Epistemology, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003394129-20
Boehm, M. & Cruz, M. (2023). Time for Hume's Unchanging Objects. Philosophers' Imprint.
Boehm, M. (2021). "Hume's "Projectivism" Explained". Synthese 199, 815–833. 

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