Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity
[full article, abstract in English; only abstract in Lithuanian] In this paper, I present an interpretation on how Hume can escape from his intellectual ordeal concerning personal identity in the Appendix of the Treatise. First of all, I present the source of Hume’s despair to offer an interpreta...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Vilnius University Press
2018-10-01
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| Series: | Problemos |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/11989 |
| Summary: | [full article, abstract in English; only abstract in Lithuanian]
In this paper, I present an interpretation on how Hume can escape from his intellectual ordeal concerning personal identity in the Appendix of the Treatise. First of all, I present the source of Hume’s despair to offer an interpretation on what would have truly bothered Hume in the Appendix, and I identify several lines of interpretation. Recently Jonathan Ellis has distinguished various ways of understanding Hume’s predicament. Of the four groups of explanations that Ellis distinguishes, in this paper I elaborate on the three that Ellis does not sufficiently explicate, addressing some key issues that Ellis missed. Last, I offer an alternative reading of Hume’s difficulty, based on Dennett’s ideas on the matter, and make a suggestion about what Hume ought to have said about these problems. |
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| ISSN: | 1392-1126 2424-6158 |