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2. academic.oup.com › book › 39823The Idea of Self in Hume’s Treatise | The Self: A History ...

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   Hume’s account of the idea of self is highly distinctive but not fully elaborated. The first section of this chapter describes some of the most important roles that the idea of self plays in Hume’s Treatise, and it highlights three questions that naturally arise from this description.

3. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfplusHume's Bundle Theory of the Self: A Limited Defense - JSTOR

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   THE secondary literature on Hume's Treatise of Human Nature contains two major criticisms of the bundle theory of the self. The first centers on the problem of specifying a criterion by which perceptions can be grouped together into individual bundles. Given that the mind is simply a collection of perceptions (as Hume said), by what principle

4. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 4022019 Hume, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility - Oxford Academic

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   Jul 1, 2014 · This chapter aims to relate Hume’s discussion of liberty and necessity to central themes in his philosophy, including causation, the self, the distinction between virtue and vice, and naturalism as a response to skepticism.

5. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfHume and the Self at a Moment - JSTOR

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   I. Hume's Account and the Self at a Moment The problem Hume confronts is one about identity through change. The idea of identity or sameness, he says, is that of an object existing

6. academic.oup.com › edited-volume › 4022014 Hume on Personal Identity - Oxford Academic

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   Jul 1, 2014 · This paper considers Hume’s account of personal identity in his Treatise of Human Nature. It argues for three connected claims. (1) Hume does not endorse a “bundle theory” of mind, according to which the mind or self is simply a “bundle” of perceptions; he thinks that “the essence of the mind [is] unknown to us.”.

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   Hume’s discussions entitled “Of liberty and necessity” – in both Treatise 2.3.1-2 and Enquiry 8 – are largely devoted to establishing what he calls the doctrine of necessity in the sphere of human behaviour.

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   What is Hume's account of personal identity?

   • This paper considers Hume’s account of personal identity in his Treatise of Human Nature. It argues for three connected claims. (1) Hume does not endorse a “bundle theory” of mind, according to which the mind or self is simply a “bundle” of perceptions; he thinks that “the essence of the mind [is] unknown to us.”

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   What does Hume say about liberty and necessity?

   • We have seen that Hume’s account of liberty and necessity is intended to establish both that the doctrine of necessity applies to the actions of human beings, as well as to events in the natural world, and also that our actions may be free in a sense that allows for moral responsibility.

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   What kind of self-determination does Hume allow?

   • The kind of self-determination for which Hume allows here is distinguished from that of the libertarian and is also contrasted with the problematic notion of responsibility for self that leads to skepticism about the very possibility of moral responsibility.

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   What does Hume say about a person?

   • In the Treatise Hume argues that a person is “nothing but a bundle of perceptions”. But what precisely is the meaning of this bundle thesis of a person?

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   How does Hume express his thoughts on the self?

   • The uncompromising declarative sentences that Hume relies on to express his thoughts on the self in the main text of the Treatise, along with the confident, if not brash tone of the writing in the early part of the section “Of personal identity” certainly leaves one with the impression that this is his intent.

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   What is Hume's bundle thesis on the self?

   • With his bundle thesis on the self, Hume is clearly exhibiting an explicit commitment to the ontology of perceptions at the expense of all other ontologies. For instance, his bundle thesis on the self that is centered exclusively on perceptions implicitly excludes any commitment to the radically different ontologies of physical objects and minds.

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   Feb 24, 2012 · This identification of the mind with its perceptions inaugurates a major transition in Hume’s discourse on the self. The section “Of personal identity” opens with a severe critical flourish intended to expose the alleged shortcomings of the traditional account of the self.