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Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise

Donald L.M. Baxter

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Description:In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume s treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity. Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent something as "a medium betwixt unity and number." Superficial resemblance to Frege s famous puzzle has kept the difficulty in the shadows. Hume s way of addressing it makes sense only in the context of his unorthodox theory of time. Baxter shows the defensibility of that theory against past dismissive interpretations, especially of Hume s stance on infinite divisibility. Later the author shows how the difficulty underlies Hume s later worries about his theory of personal identity, in a new reading motivated by Hume s important appeals to consciousness. Baxter casts Hume throughout as an acute metaphysician, and reconciles this side of Hume with his overarching Pyrrhonian skepticism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise. To get started finding Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 134

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Publisher: Routledge

Release: 2012

ISBN: 1135196753

Description: In this volume--the first, focused study of Hume on time and identity--Baxter focuses on Hume s treatment of the concept of numerical identity, which is central to Hume's famous discussions of the external world and personal identity. Hume raises a long unappreciated, and still unresolved, difficulty with the concept of identity: how to represent something as "a medium betwixt unity and number." Superficial resemblance to Frege s famous puzzle has kept the difficulty in the shadows. Hume s way of addressing it makes sense only in the context of his unorthodox theory of time. Baxter shows the defensibility of that theory against past dismissive interpretations, especially of Hume s stance on infinite divisibility. Later the author shows how the difficulty underlies Hume s later worries about his theory of personal identity, in a new reading motivated by Hume s important appeals to consciousness. Baxter casts Hume throughout as an acute metaphysician, and reconciles this side of Hume with his overarching Pyrrhonian skepticism.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise. To get started finding Hume's Difficulty: Time and Identity in the Treatise, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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