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Professor
- Practical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail paul.russellfil.luse
Room LUX:B521
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30
PAUL RUSSELL was appointed Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Lund University in January 2018. At Lund he also serves as Director of the Lund | Gothenburg Responsibility Project (LGRP). This is a half-time research position and has been made possible thanks to a major grant from the Swedish Research Council for "the international recruitment of leading researchers"(2014). Along with the position at Lund University he will continue, on a reduced basis, at the University of British Columbia.
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Apart from these positions, he held a Research Fellowship at Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) as well as a number of visiting appointments at various universities, including Cambridge, Virginia, Stanford, Pittsburgh and North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2010 he was elected to a Fowler Hamilton Visiting Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford University.
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- Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (research leader)
- LGRP - Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (research leader)
- Lund Gothenburg Responsibility Project (research leader)
Books (2)
- Russell, P. (2022). Recasting Hume and Early Modern Philosophy : Selected Essays. Oxford University Press.
- Russell, P. (2017). The Limits of Free Will : Selected Essays. Oxford University Press.
Editorships (1)
Articles (5)
- Russell, P. (2021). Responsibility skepticism and strawson’s naturalism. Ethics, 131, 754-776. University of Chicago Press.
- Lecaldano, E., Russell, P. & Rasmussen, D. C. (2018). David Hume e Adam Smith Rifessioni su un libro. Rivista di Filosofia, 109, 477-500. Societa Editrice Il Mulino.
- Russell, P. (2018). Bernard Williams: Ethics from a Human Point of View. TLS - The Times Literary Supplement. Times Literary Supplements Ltd.
- Russell, P. (2017). [Review of] Toward a Humean True Religion: Genuine Theism, Moderate Hope, and Practical Morality. Journal of the History of Philosophy, 55, 168-169. Johns Hopkins University Press.
- Russell, P. (2016). Review of James A. Harris, Hume: An Intellectual Biography. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. University of Notre Dame.
Book chapters (9)
- Russell, P. (2022). Moral Responsibility and Existential Attitudes. In Kay Nelkin, D. & Pereboom, D. (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Moral Responsibility (pp. 517-541). Oxford University Press.
- Russell, P. (2021). “True Religion” and Hume’s Practical Atheism. International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, International Archives of the History of Ideas/Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees, 233, 191-225. Springer Nature.
- Russell, P. (2019). Hume’s Optimism and Williams’ Pessimism : From “Science of Man” to genealogical critique. Ethics beyond the Limits : New Essays on Bernard Williams’ Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy, 37-52. Routledge.
- Russell, P. (2018). Free Will and Affirmation: Assessing Honderich’s Third Way. In Caruso, G. D. (Ed.) Philosophers in depth, Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity (pp. 79-159). Palgrave Macmillan.
- Russell, P. (2017). Free Will and Moral Sentiments: Strawsonian Approaches. In Timpe, K., Griffith, M. & Levy, N. (Eds.) Routledge Companion to Free Will (pp. 96-108). Routledge.
- Russell, P. (2017). Free Will Pessimism. In Shoemaker, D. (Ed.) Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility : Volume 4, 4. Oxford University Press.
- Russell, P. (2017). Free Will Pessimism. Kungl. Vitterhets historie och antikvitetsakademiens årsbok 2017, 47-63.
- Russell, P. (2016). Hume's Philosophy of Irreligion and the Myth of British Empiricism. In Russell, P. (Ed.) Oxford Handbooks, The Oxford Handbook of Hume (pp. 107-137). Oxford University Press.
- Russell, P. (2015). “Hume’s Lengthy Digression": Free Will in the Treatise. In Ainslie, D. C. & Butler, A. (Eds.) The Cambridge Companion to Hume’s Treatise (pp. 230-251). Cambridge University Press.
Reviews (2)
- Russell, P. (2018). [Review of] Hume’s Critique of Religion: Sick Men’s Dreams, by A. Bailey & D. O'Brien. Philosophical Quarterly, 68, 867-870. Oxford University Press.
- Russell, P. (2017). [Review of] 'Conversation and Responsibility', by Michael McKenna. Philosophical Review, 126, 285-295. Duke University Press.
Other tasks and qualifications
My interests cover the areas of free will and moral responsibility along with various topics in early modern philosophy. Within the area of free will and moral responsibility I am particularly interested in the challenge of scepticism and theories of responsibility that appeal to reactive attitudes or moral sentiments. On the subject of early modern philosophy I am especially concerned with the philosophy of David Hume and how his philosophy relates to problems of religion and atheism.Professor
- Practical Philosophy
- Department of Philosophy
Contact information
E-mail paul.russellfil.luse
Room LUX:B521
Visiting address
Helgonavägen 3, Lund
Postal address
Box 192, 221 00 Lund
Internal post code 30