Donald L.M. Baxter 
Hume”s Difficulty [EPUB ebook] 
Time and Identity in the Treatise

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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.

 

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Format EPUB ● Halaman-halaman 144 ● ISBN 9781135196752 ● Penerbit Taylor and Francis ● Diterbitkan 2012 ● Muat turun 6 kali ● Mata wang EUR ● ID 2590143 ● Salin perlindungan Adobe DRM
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