Hume's difficulty : time and identity in the Treatise / Donald L.M. Baxter.

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Baxter, Donald L. M, 1954-

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TextSeries: Routledge studies in eighteenth century philosophyPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (139 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781135196684
1135196680

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Hume's Difficulty.DDC classification:

128 192 22

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B1489 .B39 2012

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5,1
CF 4615

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Contents:

1. Interpreting Hume as metaphysician and skeptic -- 2. Moments and durations -- 3. Steadfast objects -- 4. Identity -- 5. Representing personal identity -- 6. Systematic exposition of Hume's difficulty.

Summary: 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.

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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.

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