P. J. E. Kail is a contemporary analytic philosopher at the University of Oxford, where he is a Fellow of St Peter's College. He specializes in early modern philosophy, particularly Hume, with significant work on naturalism, projectivism, and the metaphysics of mind and morals. His scholarship examines whether Humean sentimentalism commits to a projective or realist account of value.
Authored 'Projection and Realism in Hume's Philosophy' (Oxford University Press, 2007), a major study of Hume's metaethics
Advanced the debate on whether Hume's sentimentalism entails projectivism or a form of realism
Contributed to scholarship on Hume's naturalism and philosophy of mind
Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford, specializing in early modern and metaethical philosophy