Philosophy

Dr. Goldhaber will be joining the University of Florida as an Assistant Professor in Spring 2025. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Princeton Project in Philosophy and Religion. His research focuses on skepticism in contemporary philosophy and the early modern period, especially in Hume and Kant. He also writes about early modern feminism, the role of philosophy in living well, and the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of perception.

Selected publications

• “Kant’s Offer to the Skeptical Empiricist” (2024), Journal of the History of Philosophy 62 (3): 421–47.
• “Hume’s Skeptical Philosophy and the Moderation of Pride” (2024), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (3): 621–36.
• “The Dissatisfied Skeptic in Kant’s Discipline of Pure Reason” (2023), Journal of Transcendental Philosophy 4 (2): 157–77.
• “Hume’s Real Riches” (2022), History of Philosophy Quarterly 39 (1): 45–57.
• “The Humors in Hume’s Skepticism” (2021), Ergo 7 (30): 789–824.
• “Does Perceptual Psychology Rule Out Disjunctivism in the Theory of Perception?” (2021), Synthese 198 (8): 7025–47.

Selected awards

• 2024, 2023, 2022 Hume Society, Emerging Scholar Award (awarded three times)
• 2022 NEH Institute Stipend, "Hume in the 21st Century"
• 2020 North American Kant Society, Best Graduate Student Paper Award
• 2019 Elizabeth Baranger Excellence in Teaching Award
• 2019 Early Modern Worlds Biennial Graduate Student Prize