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Helen Beebee

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and related issues. She has written on a wide variety of topics related to Humeanism, including attempting to tackle the question of whether or not the laws of nature govern what happens, whether inductive scepticism follows necessarily from a Humeanistic approach, and whether or not it is possible
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of our time'. Beebee has a significant interest in the problem of underrepresentation of women in the field of philosophy, and has spoken about the problems that face women philosophers in a modern academic context, such as in her paper "Women and Deviance in Philosophy".
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Beebee is currently the Samuel Hall Professor of Philosophy at the University of Manchester, a position she has held since 2012. Before her current position, Beebee held full-time appointments at the University of Manchester, and the
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to observe causal relations in a meaningful way. She has also written on Hume himself. Beebee also has a secondary interest in free will, particularly in bringing Humean approaches to the problem of compatibilitism.
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Beebee's work has been influential across a wide variety of fields, including
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A majority of Beebee's research could be broadly classed as dealing with
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Helen Beebe
University of Warwick
University of Liverpool
King's College London
Australian National University
University of Manchester
University of Birmingham
Metaphysics
causation
free will
FBA
University of Leeds
British Academy
Manchester
causation
free will
Eric Schliesser
metaphysicists
University of Warwick
University of Liverpool
King's College London
University of Birmingham
University of Edinburgh
University of St Andrews
University College, London
Australian National University
Humeanism
Hume Studies
Australasian Journal of Philosophy
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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