GalIagher, Shaun · 1992
The Theater of Personal Identity From Hume to Derrida
GalIagher, Shaun (1992). “The Theater of Personal Identity From Hume to Derrida.” The Personalist Forum 8(Supplement): 21–30.
11
citations of the Treatise
37
paragraphs reached
27%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.23
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 100%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 0%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 3.3.4.2 n88 2 other papers reach it
- T 3.3.4.3 2 other papers reach it
- T 3.3.4.2 2 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Ware 2014 similarity 0.85
Consciousness and Personal Identity - Ainslie 1999 similarity 0.75
Scepticism About Persons in Book II of Humes Treatise - Penelhum 1992 similarity 0.74
The Self of Book 1 and the Selves of Book 2 - Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.74
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Greco 2015 similarity 0.74
The Self as Narrative in Hume
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Book 3: Of Morals
Part 3: Of the other virtues and vices
Appendix
The evidence
Every citation the pipeline accepted, with the words around it. “Citation pattern” means a standard Norton or Selby-Bigge reference; “quote matched” means the quoted words were found in the Treatise at that page; “checked by model” means a language model judged an ambiguous page number to be a Treatise citation.
| Cited as | Maps to | Context |
|---|---|---|
| (Treatise 252-253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | …ferent; whatever natural propension we may have to imagine that simplicity and identity. (Treatise 252-253). The fundamental re… |
| " (259) Checked by model | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …existence, and is different, and distinguishable, and separable from each other perception" (259) - but that consciou… |
| (261) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … 'tis to be consider'd, upon that account chiefly, as the source of personal identity".11 (261) Hume's text seems t… |
| (277) Checked by model | T 2.1.1.4 to T 2.1.2.3 (4 paragraphs) | …ssions, the self easily takes on an identity. It becomes the object of pride and humility (277) and is defined as "… |
| " (286) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 2.1.5 (3 paragraphs) | …that individual person, of whose actions and sentiments each of us is intimately conscious" (286). Hume speaks of a "… |
| (287) Checked by model | T 2.1.5 (3 paragraphs) | … is intimately conscious" (286). Hume speaks of a "disposition of the mind" towards pride (287), and of "qualities … |
| " (291) Checked by model | T 2.1.6 (4 paragraphs) | …e speaks of a "disposition of the mind" towards pride (287), and of "qualities of the mind" (291), and of a relative … |
| (293) Checked by model | T 2.1.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ide (287), and of "qualities of the mind" (291), and of a relative durability of the self (293). In the end, "Ourse… |
| " (575) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 3.3.1 (5 paragraphs) | …les of the mind, which extend over the whole conduct and enter into the personal character" (575). Although "the mind… |
| " (623-24) Quote matched to the Treatise | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …command over all its ideas, and can separate, unite, mix and vary them, as it pleases . .." (623-24); still, it is "almo… |
| ". (608) Quote matched to the Treatise | T 3.3.4 (3 paragraphs) | …s "almost impossible for the mind to change its character in any considerable article .. .". (608). - 12 Also see Writ… |