Hume on the self and personal identity / Dan O'Brien, editor.
O'Brien, Dan, 1968- editor.
2022
B1499.S45
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Title
Hume on the self and personal identity / Dan O'Brien, editor.
ISBN
9783031042751 (electronic bk.)
3031042751 (electronic bk.)
9783031042744
3031042743
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04275-1
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Copyright
©2022
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xxiv, 321 pages).
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-04275-1 doi
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B1499.S45
Dewey Decimal Classification
192
Summary
This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Humes conception of the self. The standard interpretation is that he holds a no-self view: we are just bundles of conscious experiences, thoughts and emotions. There is nothing deeper to us, no core, no essence, no soul. In the Appendix to A Treatise of Human Nature, though, Hume admits to being dissatisfied with such an account and Part One of this book explores why this might be so. Part Two turns to Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise, where Hume moves away from the fiction of a simple self, to the complex idea we have of our flesh and blood selves, those with emotional lives, practical goals, and social relations with others. In Part Three connections are traced between Hume and Madhyamaka Buddhism, Husserl and the phenomenological tradition, and contemporary cognitive science. Dan OBrien is Reader in Philosophy at Oxford Brookes University, UK, and founder and organizer of the Oxford Hume Forum. He has published on Hume, philosophy of mind, epistemology, teleology, gardening, Caravaggio and cubism; his books have been translated into Korean, Portuguese and Arabic (forthcoming).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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O'Brien, Dan, 1968- editor.
Series
Philosophers in depth. 2947-5538
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Part 1: The Self in Book 1 of the Treatise
1. How Sceptical is Humes Theory of Personal Identity?; Andrew Ward
2. Humes Bundle; Donald Ainslie
3. What I Call Myself; Galen Strawson
4. Hume and Kames on the Self and Personal Identity; Josef Moural
Part 2: The Self in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise
5. Character Development in Shaftesburys and Humes Approaches to Self; Ruth Boeker
6. Sympathy, Self and Others; Dan OBrien
7. "Scottish Sympathy" : Hume, Smith, and Psychoanalysis; Louise Braddock
8. What is Humean Autonomy?; Anik Waldow
9. A Fragmented Unity: A Narrative Answer to the Problem of the Unity of the Self in Hume; Lorenzo Greco
Part 3: Humes Self and Other Philosophical Traditions
10. Candrakirti and Hume on the Self and the Person; Jay L. Garfield
11. Husserl (and Brentano) on Humes Notion of the Self; Hynek Janousek
12. Disguising Change: Hume and Cognitive Science on the Continued Existence of Selves; Mark Collier.

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