Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism / Fred Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Fred.

Series:

Philosophische Analyse ; Bd. 22.

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; Bd. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mind and body.

Self.

Hume, David, 1711-1776--Criticism and interpretation.

Hume, David.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (553 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgments

Note

Table of Contents

Introduction

Endnotes to Introduction

Chapter One: Self as Substance

Chapter Two: Nominalism and Acquaintance

Chapter Three: From the Substance Tradition through Locke to Hume: Ordinary Things and Critical Realism

Chapter Four: The Disappearance of the Simple Self: Its Problems

Chapter Five: Hume's Positive Account of the Self

Bibliography

Index of Names

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3-938793-79-1

3-11-032707-4

OCLC:

851970752