Abraham Roth is an Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at OSU. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1996. He was a faculty member at UCLA from 1998-2002, and at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 2002-2006. His research is in the philosophy of mind and human agency, with a current focus on shared agency and the epistemology of testimony. Papers include "Shared Agency and Contralateral Commitments" (pdf), in the Philosophical Review 113, no. 3 (July 2004) ; "Practical Intersubjectivity" (pdf), in Socializing Metaphysics, Frederick Schmitt, ed. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); "Reasons Explanation of Action: Causal, Singular, and Situational", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LIX (December 1999); and "The Self-Referentiality of Intentions", in Philosophical Studies 97(1) (January 2000). He has also published work on Hume, including "Causation", in the Blackwell Companion to Hume's Treatise", Saul Traiger, ed. (2005), and "What Was Hume's Problem with Personal Identity?", in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXI (July 2000). In addition to the projects in shared agency and testimony, he is developing an interpretation of Hume's psychology of causal inference.
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