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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| author | Sunny Yang |
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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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| spelling | doaj.art-69b4b51f1dd44f509ab9b6a0b363b1b42022-12-21T21:21:43ZengVilnius University PressProblemos1392-11262424-61582018-10-019410.15388/Problemos.2018.0.0.12005Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal IdentitySunny Yang0Hankuk University of Foreign Studies[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.http://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/11989Personal Identity, Hume’s second thoughts, connecting principles, Hume’s inconsistency, homunculi model |
| spellingShingle | Sunny Yang Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity Problemos Personal Identity, Hume’s second thoughts, connecting principles, Hume’s inconsistency, homunculi model |
| title | Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity |
| title_full | Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity |
| title_short | Hume’s Second Thoughts on Personal Identity |
| title_sort | hume s second thoughts on personal identity |
| topic | Personal Identity, Hume’s second thoughts, connecting principles, Hume’s inconsistency, homunculi model |
| url | http://www.journals.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/11989 |
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