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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452714203321

Autore

Wilson Fred

Titolo

Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism [[electronic resource] /] / Fred Wilson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2008

ISBN

3-11-032707-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (553 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical analysis ; ; Bd. 22

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Mind and body

Self

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Note -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Endnotes to Introduction -- Chapter One: Self as Substance -- Chapter Two: Nominalism and Acquaintance -- Chapter Three: From the Substance Tradition through Locke to Hume: Ordinary Things and Critical Realism -- Chapter Four: The Disappearance of the Simple Self: Its Problems -- Chapter Five: Hume's Positive Account of the Self -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account is essentially correct. In particular it is argued that it is one's character that constitutes one's identity; and that sympathy and the passions of