James O'Shea has taught at University College Dublin (UCD) since receiving his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. He has published several books and numerous articles on Hume and Kant, on pragmatism and the history of American philosophy, and in the general areas of epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind. He is currently writing on Kant's critical philosophy and on contemporary problems concerning scientific naturalism, pragmatism, and normativity.