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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.
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.”.
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.
- Jane L. McIntyre
- 2008
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.
Hume begins his discussion of personal identity by, strikingly, denying that we have any idea of the self: “There are some philosophers, who imagine we are every moment conscious of
Hume's thesis turns on one central point, and stands or falls with it. This point is his contention that it is, "to a more accurate method of thinking," a confusion to call an object that changes the same. The "idea of identity or sameness" is the idea of an object that persists without changing.
