Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism / / Fred Wilson

• Autore: Wilson Fred
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (553 p.)
• Disciplina: 190
• Soggetto topico: Mind and body; Self
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Body, mind and self in Hume's critical realism
• ISBN: 3-938793-79-1; 3-11-032707-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910969408103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Philosophische Analyse ; ; Bd. 22.