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Houston Smit

Associate Professor of Philosophy
Ph.D., University of California at Los Angeles, 1994
History of Modern Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy

Houston Smit (PH.D. University of California, Los Angeles, 1994), Associate Professor of Philosophy. He specializes in History of Modern Philosophy and History of Medieval Philosophy.

Current Research

  • "What Can We Know about Things in Themselves?"
  • "Causal Laws and the Mechanism of Nature"
  • "Kant on Synthesis and the Immediacy of Intuition"
  • "Unity of Apperception and the Identity of the Subject"
  • "Kant on Insight and the Uniformity of Nature"

Selected Publications

  • "The Role of Reflection in the Critique of Pure Reason." Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 80 (1999): 203-23
  • "Kant on Marks and the Immediacy of Intuition." Philosophical Review 109 (2000): 235-66
  • "Aquinas's Abstractionism".  Medieval Philosophy and Theology 10 (2001): 85-118
  • "Internalism and the Origin of Moral Motivation." The Journal of Ethics 7 (2003): 183-231
  • "Kant on Apriority and the Spontaneity of Cognition."  In Samuel Newlands and Larry M. Jorgensen, eds., Metaphysics and the Good: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Merrihew Adams.  Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  • "Apriority, Reason, and Induction in Hume."  Forthcoming in Journal of the History of Philosophy.