Papers
The 100 papers in the corpus, drawn from the PhilPapers category on Hume and personal identity. Focus and surprise are given for the 56 papers with at least 10 citations. Click a column to sort.
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| Author | Year | Title | Citations | Focus | Surprise | Theme mix |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ainslie, Donald C. | 1995 | The Problem of the National Self in Humes Theory of Justice Hume Studies | 51 | 0% | 4.80 | |
| Ainslie, Donald C. | 1999 | Scepticism About Persons in Book II of Humes Treatise Journal of the History of Philosophy | 73 | 7% | 4.44 | |
| Ainslie, Donald C. | 2003 | Review Hume, a Scottish Socrates? Canadian Journal of Philosophy | 62 | 20% | 4.60 | |
| Ainslie, Donald C. | 2008 | Hume on Personal Identity A Companion to Hume | 57 | 49% ★ | 4.69 | |
| Ainslie, Donald C. | 2009 | Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy. By P. J. E. Kail Metaphilosophy | 13 | 3% | 5.06 | |
| Ashley, Lawrence Stack, Michael | 1974 | Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity Dialogue | 16 | 59% ★ | 4.85 | |
| Biro, J. I. | 1976 | Hume on Self-Identity and Memory Review of Metaphysics | 7 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Bricke, John | 2002 | Penelhum, Terence. Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion Review of Metaphysics | 1 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Bricke, John | 2004 | Review Humes Philosophy of the Self Mind | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Buckle, Stephen | 2008 | Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Butchvarov, Panayot | 1959 | The Self and Perceptions a Study in Humean Philosophy Philosophical Quarterly | 19 | 34% | 4.68 | |
| Carlson, Åsa | 2009 | There Is Just One Idea of Self in Humes Treatise Hume Studies | 50 | 28% | 4.82 | |
| Clack, Robert J. | 1973 | Chisholm and Hume on Observing the Self Philosophy and Phenomenological Research | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Cottrell, Jonathan | 2015 | Minds, Composition, and Humes Skepticism in the Appendix Philosophical Review | 208 | 34% | 3.36 | |
| Coventry, Angela | 2008 | Review P. J. E. Kail, Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews | 10 | 50% ★ | 5.32 | |
| Coventry, Angela | 2012 | The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume, by Udo Thiel Mind | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Davie, William | 1984 | Hume on Perceptions and Persons Hume Studies | 12 | 36% | 5.14 | |
| Dussinger, J. A. | 1980 | David Humes Denial of Personal Identity The Making of a Skeptic Imago | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Ellis, Jonathan | 2006 | The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair Hume Studies | 134 | 62% | 1.88 | |
| Falkenstein, Lorne | 1999 | Space and the Self in Humes Treatise Hume Studies | 1 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Flage, Daniel E. | 2004 | Humes Philosophy of the Self International Philosophical Quarterly | 6 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Flage, Daniel E. Glass, Ronald J. | 1984 | Hume on the Cartesian Theory of Substance Southern Journal of Philosophy | 9 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| GalIagher, Shaun | 1992 | The Theater of Personal Identity From Hume to Derrida The Personalist Forum | 11 | 27% | 5.23 | |
| Garral, Michael D. | 2007 | Is the Self in Hume Overmoralized? Revista de Filosofía (Madrid) | 19 | 0% | 5.80 | |
| Garrett, Don | 1981 | Humes Self-Doubts About Personal Identity Philosophical Review | 19 | 23% | 5.80 | |
| Garrett, Don | 2001 | Book Review. Space and the Self in Humes Treatise Marina Frasca-spada Mind | 5 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Garrett, Don | 2010 | Once More Into the Labyrinth Kail’s Realist Explanation of Hume’s Second Thoughts About Personal Identity Hume Studies | 27 | 39% | 5.44 | |
| Gilead, Amihud | 2008 | A Humean Argument for Personal Identity Metaphysica | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Giles, James | 1993 | The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity Philosophy East and West | 21 | 45% | 2.48 | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Greco, Lorenzo | 2015 | The Self as Narrative in Hume Journal of the History of Philosophy | 75 | 36% | 4.41 | |
| Green, Michael J. | 1999 | The Idea of a Momentary Self and Humes Theory of Personal Identity British Journal for the History of Philosophy | 39 | 46% | 3.96 | |
| Hatfield, Gary | 2009 | Hume, Space, and the Self British Journal for the History of Philosophy | 8 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Henderson, Robert S. | 1990 | David Hume on Personal Identity and the Indirect Passions Hume Studies | 32 | 13% | 5.27 | |
| Humber, James M. | 1995 | Humes Invisible Self American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly | 28 | 40% | 4.29 | |
| Inukai, Yumiko | 2007 | Humes Labyrinth The Bundling Problem History of Philosophy Quarterly | 65 | 57% | 3.45 | |
| Inukai, Yumiko | 2012 | Jamess Answer to Hume The Empirical Basis of the Unified Self British Journal for the History of Philosophy | 26 | 20% | 4.37 | |
| Kail, P. J. E. | 2007 | Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy key chapter is 6 | 54 | 55% | 3.63 | |
| Kail, P. J. E. | 2010 | Précis of Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Kail, Peter J. E. | 2008 | On Humes Appropriation of Malebranche Causation and Self European Journal of Philosophy | 46 | 11% | 4.91 | |
| Lesser, Harry | 1978 | Reids Criticism of Humes Theory of Personal Identity Hume Studies | 1 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Levin, Michael E. | 2007 | Bundling Hume with Kripkenstein Synthese | 4 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Loeb, L. E. | 2009 | Review P. J. E. Kail Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy Mind | 24 | 1% | 5.56 | |
| Loeb, Louis E. | 1992 | Causation, Extrinsic Relations, and Humes Second Thoughts About Personal Identity Hume Studies | 47 | 26% | 4.88 | |
| Lybaert, Fauve | 2012 | Could Hume Save His Account of Personal Identity? On the Role of Contiguity in the Constitution of Our Idea of Personal Identity Prolegomena | 9 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Mathur, D. C. | 1978 | The Historical Buddha (Gotama), Hume, and James on the Self Comparisons and Evaluations Philosophy East and West | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Mcintyre, Jane L. | 2009 | Hume and the Problem of Personal Identity The Cambridge Companion to Hume | 87 | 29% | 4.26 | |
| McIntyre, Jane L. | 1979 | Further Remarks on the Consistency of Humes Account of the Self Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| McIntyre, Jane L. | 2003 | So Great a Question A Critical Study of Raymond Martin and John Barresi Hume Studies | 16 | 37% | 4.32 | |
| Melchert, Norman | 1975 | Humes Appendix on Personal Identity Philosophy Research Archives | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Mendus, Susan | 1980 | Personal Identity The Two Analogies in Hume Philosophical Quarterly | 12 | 61% | 2.71 | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Mijuskovic, Ben | 1971 | Hume and Shaftesbury on the Self Philosophical Quarterly | 3 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Murray, D. W. | 1993 | What Is the Western Concept of the Self? On Forgetting David Hume Ethos Journal of the Society for Psychological Anthropology | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Nathanson, Stephen | 1976 | Humes Second Thoughts on the Self Hume Studies | 14 | 20% | 4.99 | |
| Noonan, H. | 2004 | A E Pitson Humes Philosophy of the Self British Journal for the History of Philosophy | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Noonan, Harold | 2012 | The Self and Personal Identity The Continuum Companion to Hume | 53 | 40% ★ | 4.76 | |
| Pappas, George S. | 1992 | Perception of the Self Hume Studies | 3 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Patten, S. C. | 1976 | Humes Bundles, Self-Consciousness and Kant Hume Studies | 10 | 52% | 4.17 | |
| Pears, David | 1993 | Hume on Personal Identity Hume Studies | 1 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Pears, David | 2004 | Humes Recantation of His Theory of Personal Identity Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Penelhum, Terence | 1955 | Hume on Personal Identity Philosophical Review | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Penelhum, Terence | 1975 | Humes Theory of the Self Revisited Dialogue | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Penelhum, Terence | 1992 | The Self of Book 1 and the Selves of Book 2 Hume Studies | 15 | 28% | 4.92 | |
| Penelhum, Terence | 2000 | Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion key chapters are 2-6, have 2, 4, 5, will create a single file for these | 40 | 40% ★ | 5.05 | |
| Penelhum, Terence M. | 1976 | The Self in Hume’s Philosophy Southwestern Journal of Philosophy | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Pereira, Francisco | 2014 | Hume y la Ficcíon de Identidad Personal Ideas Y Valores | 56 | 36% | 4.71 | |
| Pike, Nelson | 1967 | Humes Bundle Theory of the Self A Limited Defense American Philosophical Quarterly | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Pitson, Tony | 2012 | The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity. By Galen Strawson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. Xii + 165. ISBN 9780199608508 Philosophy | 22 | 26% | 4.53 | |
| Pitson, Tony | 2013 | Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self Hume Studies | 169 | 25% | 3.57 | |
| Purviance, Susan M. | 1997 | The Moral Self and the Indirect Passions Hume Studies | 20 | 15% | 5.75 | |
| Purviance, Susan M. | 2004 | Humes Philosophy of the Self Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Richards, Glyn | 1978 | Conceptions of the Self in Wittgenstein, Hume, and Buddhism An Analysis and Comparison The Monist | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Robison, Wade L. | 1974 | Hume on Personal Identity Journal of the History of Philosophy | 39 | 42% ★ | 5.07 | |
| Rocknak, Stefanie | 2012 | Imagined Causes Humes Conception of Objects | 220 | 40% | 3.30 | |
| Rocknak, Stefanie | 2019 | Hume and the External World The Humean Mind | 112 | 11% | 4.00 | |
| Romeo, Sergio Rábade | 1973 | Fenomenismo y Yo Personal En Hume Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafîsica (Madrid) | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Roth, Abe | 2013 | The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity by Galen Strawson Journal of the History of Philosophy | 3 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Roth, Abraham Sesshu | 2000 | What Was Humes Problem with Personal Identity? Philosophical and Phenomenological Research | 33 | 36% | 3.60 | |
| Roth, Robert J. | 1990 | Hume and James on Personal Identity American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly | 15 | 79% | 3.36 | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Russell, Paul | 1995 | Faith, Scepticism & Personal Identity A Festschrift for Terence Penelhum (Review) Hume Studies | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Scarre, Geoffrey | 1983 | What Was Humes Worry About Personal Identity? Analysis | 6 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Schwerin, Alan | 2012 | Hume on the Self Metaphysica | 18 | 93% | 2.63 | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Schwerin, Alan | 2013 | Russell on Humes Account of the Self Russell The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies | 1 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Schwerin, Alan Kenneth | 2016 | Is Hume Attempting to Introduce a New, Pragmatic Conception of a Contradiction in His Treatise? Principia An International Journal of Epistemology | 6 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Singer, Ira | 2003 | Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion Ethics | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Sirswal, Desh Raj | 2010 | The Concept of the Self in David Hume and the Buddha Satya Nilayam Chennai Journal of Intracultural Philosophy | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Spector, Jessica | 1998 | Looking Through the Minds I Empiricism, Moral Psychology, and Humes Trouble with the Self | 186 | 9% | 3.47 | |
| Stoklosa, Anna | 2009 | Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy Australasian Journal of Philosophy | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Strawson, Galen | 2011 | The Evident Connexion The Evident Connexion | 343 | 16% | 2.82 | |
| Strawson, Galen | 2012 | All My Hopes Vanish Hume on the Mind The Continuum Companion to Hume | 102 | 39% | 2.99 | |
| Stroud, Barry | 2013 | The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity, by Galen Strawson. European Journal of Philosophy | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Swain, Corliss Gayda | 1991 | Being Sure of Ones Self Hume on Personal Identity Hume Studies | 42 | 27% | 3.89 | |
| Swain, Corliss Gayda | 2006 | Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy The Blackwell Guide to Humes Treatise | 64 | 59% ★ | 4.57 | |
| Thiel, Udo | 2011 | The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume key chapters are 13 and 14 | 27 | 21% | 5.44 | |
| Tomhave, Alan | 2010 | Cartesian Intuitions, Humean Puzzles, and the Buddhist Conception of the Self Philosophy East and West | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
| Ware, Owen Ainslie, Donald C. | 2014 | Consciousness and Personal Identity The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy | 23 | 35% | 3.96 | |
| Waxman, Wayne | 1992 | Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity Hume Studies | 42 | 42% | 3.36 | |
| Winkler, Kenneth P. | 2000 | All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume Hume Studies | 49 | 40% ★ | 4.84 | |
| Winkler, Kenneth P. | 2010 | P.J.E. Kails Projection and Realism in Humes Philosophy Philosophical Books | 26 | 15% | 5.48 | |
| Yang, Xiaomei | 1998 | Humes View on Personal Identity Scepticism or Nonscepticism? History of Philosophy Quarterly | 24 | 41% ★ | 4.45 | |
| Zinkin, Melissa | 2013 | Review Theil, Udo, The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume Review of Metaphysics | 0 | – | – | Too few citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix |
★ focused and surprising: at least 40% focus and surprise of 4.4 or more.