Overview
- Attempts to understand David Hume’s conception of the self
- Acknowledges Hume’s dissatisfaction with his own no-self view
- Traces connections between Hume and other concepts of the self
Part of the book series: Philosophers in Depth (PID)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The Self in Book 1 of the Treatise
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Front Matter
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The Self in Books 2 and 3 of the Treatise
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Front Matter
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Hume’s Self and Other Philosophical Traditions
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book brings together a team of international scholars to attempt to understand David Hume’s 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.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dan O’Brien 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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Hume on the Self and Personal Identity
Editors: Dan O'Brien
Series Title: Philosophers in Depth
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04275-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04274-4Published: 01 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-04277-5Published: 02 September 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-04275-1Published: 30 August 2022
Series ISSN: 2947-552X
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5538
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 321
Topics: Philosophy of Mind, History of Philosophy