Author: David Purdie

PETER S FOSL is Professor of Philosophy at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he chairs the PPE program. Fosl is co-editor of the Dictionary of Literary Biography volumes on the history of British Philosophy, co-author with Julian Baggini of The Philosopher’s Toolkit and Ethics Toolkit, and he is author of Hume’s Scepticism: Pyrrhonian and Academic (forthcoming with Edinburgh University Press). Fosl has published numerous articles on the history of philosophy and on popular culture. He was a Fulbright student in Edinburgh and the David Hume Fellow of the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) during the 2013–4 academic year.