Angela Coventry

Associate Professor of Philosophy

Office: NH 393F
Phone: 503-725-5575
Email: coventry@pdx.edu

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Coventry is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Portland State University. She received her PhD from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2004. Prior to coming to teach at PSU in 2004, she taught at the University of Arizona. Her major area of research includes the History of Modern Philosophy (17th and 18th Century Continental and British). Angela is the author of two books: Hume's Theory of Causation: A Quasi-Realist Interpretation, Continuum Studies in British Philosophy, Continuum Books (cloth 2006; paperback 2008)  and Hume: A Guide for the Perplexed, Continuum Books (2007; translated into Portuguese 2009, second edition 2012). In addition she has published several articles and book reviews in journals such as Hume Studies, Locke Studies, Logical Analysis and History of Philosophy, History of Philosophy Quarterly, and Mind. She is currently preparing an edition of Hume's Treatise of Human Nature for Broadview Press.

Follow Angela's work at http://pdx.academia.edu/AngelaCoventry

Angela serves as the Executive Vice President-Treasurer of The Hume Society, an international organization whose purpose is to stimulate scholarship on all aspects of Hume's thought and writings: http://humesociety.org/

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