Kate Abramson

Short Biography

Kate Abramson has written on Hume, history of ethics, contemporary ethics, and other arenas of early modern philosophy (especially British). Her articles have appeared in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Philosophical Studies, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, as well as in various collections including The Blackwell Companion to Hume, and the forthcoming Cambridge Critical Guide to Hume's Treatise. Her current projects are a monograph on the evolution of Hume's moral philosophy titled, The Artifice of Nature: From Philosopher to Reflective Man, and an annotated collection of background historical sources necessary for understanding the context of Hume's Treatise. She has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Center for Human Values at Princeton University, and has received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the American Philosophical Society. She holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Wellesley College, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Chicago.