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Miren Boehm

  • Professor, Philosophy

Education

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

Teaching Interests

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

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). General Rules and Varieties of Normative Standards in Hume. Chamberlain, J & Demeter, T. (Eds). The Prevelance of General Rules in Hume's Philosophy. Routledge.
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. (2026). Buffier on Time, Duration, and Existence. Waldow, A. & Perinetti, D. (Eds). Claude Buffier: Metaphysics, Common Sense, and Sociability. Oxford University Press.
Boehm, M. (2025c). 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. (2025b).  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. (2025a).  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. (2022b). Review of Jay L. Garfield. The Concealed Influence of Custom, Hume’s Treatise from the Inside Out. (Oxford University Press, 2019). Journal of the History of Philosophy 60(3), 511-513.
Boehm, M. (2022a). Review of Hsueh M. Qu. Hume's Epistemological Evolution. (Oxford University Press, 2020). Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (1):165-167.
Boehm, M. (2021). "Hume's "Projectivism" Explained". Synthese 199, 815–833.