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Galen Strawson

The Evident Connexion

Hume on Personal Identity

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The Evident Connexion presents a new reading of Hume's 'bundle theory' of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson argues that the bundle theory does not claim that there are no subjects of experience, as many have supposed, or that the mind is just a series of experiences. Hume holds only that the 'essence of the mind [is] unknown'. His claim is simply that we have no empirically respectable reason to believe in the existenceof a persisting subject, or a mind that is more than a series of experiences (each with its own subject).Why does Hume later reject the bundle theory? Many think he became dissatisfied with his acc… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-161938-0
  • EAN: 9780191619380
  • Produktnummer: 13997048
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 1'136 KB

Über den Autor


Galen Strawson is Professor of Philosophy at Reading University. Prior to that he was Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Jesus College, Oxford (1987-2000). From 2004 to 2007 he was also Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at CUNY Graduate Center in New York. He has held visiting positions at the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University (1993), New York University (1997), Rutgers University (2000), and MIT (2010). Strawson received hisdegrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, and studied at the Ecole normale supérieure and the Sorbonne in Paris (1977-1998).

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