Miren Boehm
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Curtin Hall 609
Education
PhD, University of California, Irvine
BA, (philosophy and psychology) University of California, Los Angeles
Research Interests
Hume’s theoretical and practical philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy (specially Newton and Mary Shepherd), and Contemporary Epistemology (in particular, projectivists theories).
Teaching Interests
Early Modern Philosophy, Religion and Science, Applied Ethics (Abortion, Drugs and Addiction, Animal Ethics, Global Poverty, Capital Punishment, and Euthanasia)
Selected Publications
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. (forthcoming) Critical Notice: Tito Magri’s Hume’s Imagination. (Oxford University Press, 2022). Analysis Reviews. Oxford Academic.
Boehm, M. (in progress) Moral and Aesthetic Truths. Stapleford , S. & Wagner, V. (Eds). Hume and Contemporary Epistemology, Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. Routledge.
Boehm, M. (forthcoming) Experimental Philosophy and Skepticism in Hume’s Treatise. Radcliffe, E. (Ed). Critical Guide to the Treatise. Cambridge University Press.
Boehm, M. (forthcoming). Hume and Shepherd: Nature and Necessity. Fields, K. (Ed). Lady Mary Shepherd, New Narratives Series. Oxford University Press.
Boehm, M. & Cruz, M. (2023) Time for Hume’s Unchanging Objects. Philosophers’ Imprint.
Boehm, M. (2022) 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. (2022) 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.
Boehm, M. (2018) Causality and Hume’s Foundational Project. Routledge Philosophy of Mind Series: The Humean Mind. Eds. Coventry, A. & Sager, A. New York: Routledge.
Boehm, M. & Palatnik, N. (2017) Causation in Modern Philosophy, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online.
Boehm, M. (2014) Hume’s Definitions of ‘Cause’: Without Idealizations, Within the Bounds of Science. Synthese, 191, no. 16, Springer, 3803–3019.
Boehm, M. (2013) Certainty, Necessity, and Knowledge in Hume’s Treatise. David Hume: A Tercentenary Tribute. Ed. Stanley Tweyman. Caravan Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan, May 2013.
Boehm, M. (2013) Hume’s Foundational Project in the Treatise. European Journal of Philosophy 24 (1):55-77 (2016).
Boehm, M. (2013) The Normativity of Experience and Causal Belief in Hume’s Treatise. Hume Studies, Volume 39, Issue 2, 203-231.
Boehm, M. (2012) Filling the Gaps in Hume’s Vacuums. Hume Studies, Volume 38, Issue 1, 79-99.