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1. davidhume.org › texts › eHume Texts Online - David Hume

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   A permanent online resource for Hume scholars and students, including reliable texts of almost everything written by David Hume, and links to secondary material on the web.

2. onlinelibrary.wiley.com › doi › 10Hume and the fiction of the self - Parrott - European Journal ...

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   Feb 26, 2024 · In the Treatise, Hume attempts to explain why we all believe that the self is a single unified entity that persists over time, a belief which Hume calls a fiction. In this paper, I demonstrate how Hume uses a type of functional explanation to account for this belief.

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 › 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.

5. www.fitelson.org › confirmation › hume_enquiryDAVID HUME An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding - Fitelson

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   Hume’s first publication, A Treatise of Human Nature(1739–40), began as ‘an attempt to introduce the experimental method of rea-soning into moral subjects’. But in both advocating and pursuing the empirical study of the human world, the juvenile Hume ‘was carry’d away by the Heat of Youth & Invention’ (see p. 163), producing a long

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6. philonotes.com › david-humes-concept-of-the-selfDavid Hume’s Concept of the Self - PHILO-notes

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   May 16, 2022 · David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an.

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   Does Hume affirm or deny the idea of the self?

   • First, we have to remember that Hume neither affirms nor denies the idea of the self. It’s just that for Hume, talking about it simply doesn’t make sense. The reason behind Hume’s claim that there is no such thing as the idea of the self can be gleaned from his theory of ideas. So, on Hume’s theory of ideas.

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   What does Hume mean by the idea of the self?

   • However, for Hume, like the idea of an ultimate or necessary cause, the idea of a “self” is a mere fiction. Again, the idea of the self is anything but a bundle of impressions or, in other words, the idea of the self is just a supposition. Indeed, for Hume, the idea of the self is simply an idea and there is no guarantee that it exists in reality.

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   Why is Hume's concept of the self an illusion?

   • David Hume’s concept of the self does not only differ from but runs counter to Descartes’s and the other philosophers of the self, such as Plato and Aristotle. This is because, for Hume, there is no such thing as a “self”. Let me briefly explain why for Hume the concept of the self is an illusion.

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   What does Hume say about proof?

   • Hume introduced this notion in the footnote to the title of Section VI. In this sense the notion of proof carries no implication of being formal or mathematical, and is quite distinct from the notion of a demonstrative argument (cf. 12 above).

   DAVID HUME An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding | Fitelson

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   Who wrote the idea of self in Hume's treatise in?

   • Don Garrett, The Idea of Self in Hume’s Treatise In: The Self. Edited by: Patricia Kitcher, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2021. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190087265.003.0009 You do not currently have access to this chapter. Our books are available by subscription or purchase to libraries and institutions.

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   Did Hume ever acknowledge the treatise?

   • never acknowledged: Hume talks of the Treatise as ‘never acknowledged’ because he published it anonymously.

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8. 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