The humean theory of personal identity
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Appendix; Hume; Personal Identity.Abstract
In the first part of the paper, I present the infamous humean theory of personal identity. Infamous, because his own author rejected it in the Appendix of his greater work, the Treatise of Human Nature. In the second part, I present the Appendix. The fundamental question is: why does Hume rejected his early theory? The commentators divides themselves between those that see a minor, thecnical problem in the explanation of the belief in personal identity, and those that see a major, philosophical problem, which would affect not only the section “Of personal identity” but also the whole empiricist project developed in the Treatise. In the third part, I expose some of the (thecnical) problems that may have led to the insatifaction presented by the Appendix. In the fourth part, I expose the ontological interpretation, which see in the Appendix the emergence of a philosophical problem. I try to show its implausibility.
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