David Bell (BA Trinity College Dublin, MA, PhD McMaster, Canada)

Recent publications

Wissenschaft und Subjektivitaet: Der Wiener Kreis und die Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts
eds. D Bell and W Vossenkuhl (Berlin, 1993)

The Analytic Tradition: Meaning, Thought, and Knowledge
eds D Bell and N Cooper (Oxford, 1990)

Husserl
(Arguments of the Philosophers Series, London, 1990)

Frege's Theory of Judgement
(Oxford, 1979).

(Ed) T. Baldwin
'Logical Analysis of Language'
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870–1945 'Logical Analysis of Language'
(2003)

(Ed) T. Baldwin
'The Solipsism Debates'
The Cambridge History of Philosophy 1870-1945
(2003)

(Eds) J.J.E. Gracia, et al
'Strawson's Individuals'
The Classics of Western Philosophy
(2003)

'Some Kantian Thoughts about Propositional Unity'
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
(2001)

(Ed) W Vossenkuhl
'Solipsismus, Subjektivitaet, und oeffentliche Welt'
Klassiker Auslegen: Wittgensteins Tractatus
(2001)

(Ed) R. Schumacher
'Is Empirical Realism Compatible with Transcendental Idealism?
Idealismus und Repraesentationalismus
(Berlin, 2001)

(Ed) R. Stern
'Transcendental Arguments and Non-naturalistic Anti-realism'
Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects
(1999)

'The Revolt of Russell and Moore: a Very British Coup?'
Proceedings of the Royal Institute of Philosophy
(1999)

'The Structure of Thoughts, and the Formation of Concepts'
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
56 (1996)

'Solipsism and Subjectivity'
European Journal of Philosophy 4
(1996)

Immanuel Kant'
Blackwell Companion to Philosophy
(1996)

'Reference, Experience, and Intentionality'
Mind, Meaning, and Mathematics
(1994)

'Abstraction and Intuition'
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
68 (1994)

'Nominalism', 'Logical Positivism', 'Husserl', 'Frege', and 'Carnap'
Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics
(1993)

'Logicism', 'Frege', 'Psychologism', and 'Objectivity'
A Companion to Epistemology
(1992)

'Solipsismus, Subjektivitaet, und oeffentliche Welt,'
Von Wittgenstein lernen
(1992)

'What would the world be like if...?'
Entities and Individuation: Studies in Ontology and Language
(1990)

'Number'
Handbook of Ontology and Metaphysics
(1990)

'How "Russellian" was Frege?'
Mind 99
(1990)

Current projects

David Bell's primary research commitment at the moment is to a full-length study of Kant's metaphysics of experience, the provisional title of which is Making Sense of Things. This will comprise an examination of Kant's transcendental idealism, as well as his views on concepts, judgements, meaning, understanding, objects, objectivity, and the self. Subsidiary research projects presently include, firstly, an investigation of the historical origins of the so-called "revolution in philosophy" inaugurated by Moore and Russell at the beginning of this century; and secondly, an exploration of Merleau-Ponty's notion of the body-subject.