Author : Fred Wilson
Release : 2013-05-02
Genre : Philosophy
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Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism write by Fred Wilson. This book was released on 2013-05-02. Body, Mind and Self in Hume’s Critical Realism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 pride and humility are central in forming and maintaining one’s character and one’s identity as a person. But also central is one’s body: a person is an embodied consciousness: the notion that one’s body is essential to one’s identity is defended at length. Various concepts of mind and consciousness are examined - for example, neutral monism and intentionality - and also the concept of privacy and our inferences to other minds.