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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.
HUME'S BUNDLE THEORY OF THE SELF: A LIMITED DEFENSE. THE secondary literature two major on. Human Nature contains 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.
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.
Jan 1, 2020 · Were Hume to have said this, it would look as though he were asserting a Cartesian order of things with the self there as a given. I take Hume’s saying that pride produces the idea of the self to be a rhetorical way of undermining the view that the self is something given in experience.
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HUME AND THE SELF AT A MOMENT Cindy D. Stern HUME'S discussion of personal identity is concerned with the problem of identity over time. It is thus fitting that the vast body of literature addressing Hume's discussion focuses on this issue. However, Hume's account of the identity of a person over a stretch of time has consequences