CATHERINE KEMP

AOS: Philosophy of Law, Modern Philosophy, especially David Hume

AOC: History of Philosophy.

Education

The University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Texas, 1993-1996.
J.D. May 1996, with honors.

State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1987-1995.
Ph.D. (Philosophy) August 1995.
M.A. (Philosophy) December 1990.

Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 1983-1987.
B.A. (Philosophy) June 1987, College Honors, Phi Beta Kappa.

Books

Co-editor. Habermas and Pragmatism. Routledge (2002). Editor, law and legal theory section.

Hume's New Empiricism. In progress.

Articles

"Contrariety in Hume: A Case for the Importance of Experience,” New Essays on David Hume, Emilio Mazza and Emanuele Ronchetti, eds., FrancoAngeli (2007), pp. 55-64.

"Our Ideas in Experience: Hume's Examples in ‘Of scepticism with regard to our senses'", The British Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 13, no. 3 (2004), pp. 445-470.

"Experience Matters: Indifference and Determination in Hume's Treatise", Journal of Speculative Philosophy, vol. 16, no. 4 (2002), pp. 243-255.

"Law's Inertia: Custom in Logic and Experience", Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. JAI/Elsevier Science (2002), vol. 25, pp. 135-149.

"Two Meanings of the Term 'Idea': Acts and Contents in Hume's Treatise", Journal of the History of Ideas, vol. 61, no. 4 (2000), pp. 675-690.

"The Innateness Charge: Conception and Belief for Reid and Hume", Reid Studies, vol. 3, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 43-54.

"Habermas among the Americans: Some Reflections on the Common Law", Exploring Habermas on Law and Democracy, Symposium issue, Denver University Law Review, vol. 76, no. 4 (1999), pp. 961-975.

"The Uses of Abstraction: Remarks on Interdisciplinary Efforts in Law and Philosophy", Coercion: An Interdisciplinary Examination of Coercion, Exploitation, and the Law, Symposium issue, Denver University Law Review, vol. 74, no. 4 (1997), pp. 877-888.

Book Reviews

Feminist Interpretations of David Hume, ed. Anne Jaap Jacobson. Hypatia, vol. 20, no. 1 (Winter 2005), pp. 206-209.

Presentations

"Hume-Rousseau Reconsidered." Hume Society, Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Ontario, July 22, 2005.

"Hume's Nature." Inaugural Lecture, Department of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University, November 5, 2004.

"Contrariety and the Proper Relation between 'Fancy' and 'Experiment' in Hume's Treatise." Third Annual Reid Symposium: Scottish Philosophy, Aberdeen, July 13, 2004.

"The Hume-Rousseau Affaire." Art, Nature, and Experience: Engaging with Jean-Jacques Rousseau, University Park, February 14, 2004.

"The Michigan Decisions." Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy at SPEP, Boston, November 6, 2003.

"Law's Inertia: Custom in Logic and Experience." Working Group in Law, Culture, and Humanities, Austin, March 10, 2001.

"Hume and Reid on Mere Conception." Philosophy Department, Colorado State University, April 30, 1999.

"Hume’s Mistake in Treatise I.iv.2." Intermountain Early Modern Philosophy Seminar, University of Colorado at Boulder, April 19, 1998.

"Remarks on Jürgen Habermas' Between Facts and Norms." University of Denver College of Law, November 5, 1997.