Is Hume Attempting to Introduce a New, Pragmatic Conception of a Contradiction in his Treatise?

Vol 20, No 3 (2016) • Principia: an international journal of epistemology

Autor: Alan Kenneth Schwerin

Resumo:

Hume’s Treatise, with its celebrated bundle theory of the self, is a significant contribution to the embryonic Newtonian experimental philosophy of the enlightenment. But the theory is inadequate as it stands, as the appendix to the Treatise makes clear. For this account of the self, apparently, rests on contradictory principles — propositions, fortunately, that can be reconciled, according to Hume. My paper is a critical exploration of Hume’s argument for this intriguing suggestion.

ISSN: 1808-1711

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2016v20n3p315

Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/808-1711.2016v20n3p315/33917

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