Alan Schwerin
Biographic Data
| ID | 139713 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan Schwerin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwerin |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWERIN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the West Indies System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hume and The Self
In the discussion of personal identity, from his Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume reaches a famous, if notorious conclusion: there is no self. We are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions” (T 252). My argument is that Hume's thesis on the self rests on a questionable rejection of a rival view that appears to commit the fallacy of equivocation. Along the way I identify a few possible problems with Hume's overall analysis…
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Hume and The Self
In the discussion of personal identity, from his Treatise of Human Nature, David Hume reaches a famous, if notorious conclusion: there is no self. We are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions” (T 252). My argument is that Hume's thesis on the self rests on a questionable rejection of a rival view that appears to commit the fallacy of equivocation. Along the way I identify a few possible problems with Hume's overall analysis…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Argument (complex analysis (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Commit (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Consciousness (1 work) · Equivocation (1 work)