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- Part of Hume’s fame and importance owes to his boldly skeptical approach to a range of philosophical subjects. In epistemology, he questioned common notions of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time.
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Aug 21, 2023 · Hume wanted to apply some of the working principles of the natural sciences to the study of the human mind, and his theory of personal identity is an important element of that project. This article begins with an explanation of what the problem of personal identity is.
- Luke Dunne
Jan 22, 2013 · What is Hume’s view on personal identity? Answer by Craig Skinner. This can be summed up in three short quotes. I will give these, and say a little about each. 1. ‘The essence of the mind…equally unknown to us with that of external bodies’ (‘A Treatise of Human Nature’, 1739, Introduction, para. 8). 2.
May 28, 2009 · Hume's own explanation of the nature of personal identity drew on the resources of his accounts of the imagination and the passions, and was therefore unique in many respects. Nevertheless, the debates of the preceding decades had covered considerable ground, and the distinctive features of Hume's own view emerge more clearly when seen in the ...
- Jane L. McIntyre
- 2008
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.”.
In order to answer this question, we must distinguish betwixt personal identity, as it regards our thought or imagination, and as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves.
The most discussed eighteenth-century account of personal identity is that of David Hume who influenced both Sulzer and Mérian. This chapter begins with a close analysis of the relevant sections in Book I of the Treatise of Human Nature and Hume’s famous second thoughts on identity in the Appendix to Book III.
Part of Hume’s fame and importance owes to his boldly skeptical approach to a range of philosophical subjects. In epistemology, he questioned common notions of personal identity, and argued that there is no permanent “self” that continues over time.
