Evident Connexion: Hume on Personal Identity

by Galen Strawson

Book Overview

The Evident Connexion presents a new reading of Hume's 'bundle theory' of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson argues that the bundle theory does not claim that there are no subjects of experience, as many have supposed, or that the mind is just a series of experiences. Hume holds only that the 'essence of the mind is] unknown'. His claim is simply that we have no empirically respectable reason to believe in the existence...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199608504
• ISBN13: 9780199608508
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.5"