McIntyre, Jane L. · 2003
So Great a Question A Critical Study of Raymond Martin and John Barresi
McIntyre, Jane L. (2003). “So Great a Question A Critical Study of Raymond Martin and John Barresi.” Hume Studies 29(2): 363–373.
16
citations of the Treatise
68
paragraphs reached
37%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.32
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 4%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 0%Immateriality of the soul 96%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 1.4.5.15 14 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.5.31 14 other papers reach it
- T 1.4.5.30 13 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Mcintyre 2009 similarity 0.92
Hume and the Problem of Personal Identity - Thiel 2011 similarity 0.88
The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.81
The Self and Personal Identity - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.77
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self - Pitson 2012 similarity 0.77
The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity. By Galen Strawson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. Xii + 165. ISBN 9780199608508
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
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 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …on of the Soul, however, it is surprising that they do not comment on Hume's arguments in Treatise 1.4.5, "Of the immaterial… |
| T 1.4.5.15, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …ce, either material or immaterial, because some of our perceptions are actually extended (T 1.4.5.15, 1.4.5.33; SBN 239-40,… |
| SBN 239-40, 250 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (9 paragraphs) | … immaterial, because some of our perceptions are actually extended (T 1.4.5.15, 1.4.5.33; SBN 239-40, 250). Hume also argued … |
| T 1.4.5.30 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.30 | …inly conclude, that motion may be, and actually is, the cause of thought and perception. (T 1.4.5.30: SBN 248) Hume rem… |
| SBN 248 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …e, that motion may be, and actually is, the cause of thought and perception. (T 1.4.5.30: SBN 248) Hume remarks a li… |
| T 1.4.5.32 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.32 | …little later that this "gives the advantage to the materialists above their antagonists" (T 1.4.5.32; SBN 250). Attentio… |
| Treatise 1.4.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …dvantage to the materialists above their antagonists" (T 1.4.5.32; SBN 250). Attention to Treatise 1.4.5 shows that prior to… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …e to review the very familiar argument concerning personal identity that Hume presents in Treatise 1.4.6, "Of personal ident… |
| T 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | … or different existences, which are link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 1.4.6.19; SBN 261). We have … |
| T 1.4.6.4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.4 | … and, in fact, the mind has "no simplicity in it at one time, nor identity in different" (T 1.4.6.4; SBN 253). "The ide… |
| SBN 259 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …"The identity, which we ascribe to the mind of man, is only a fictitious one" (Tl.4.6.15; SBN 259). Hume distinguishe… |
| T 1.4.6.5,1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … and personal identity "as it regards our passions, or the concern we take in ourselves" (T 1.4.6.5,1.4.6.19; SBN 253, 26… |
| SBN 253, 261 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (6 paragraphs) | …ty "as it regards our passions, or the concern we take in ourselves" (T 1.4.6.5,1.4.6.19; SBN 253, 261). Only the first, h… |
| T 2.1.2.2 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.2 | …of related ideas and impressions, of which we have an intimate memory and consciousness. (T 2.1.2.2; SBN 277) and slig… |
| T 2.1.2.3 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.3 | …self, be always the object of these two passions, 'tis impossible it can be their cause. (T 2.1.2.3; SBN 277). Book 1 … |
| 1.4.6.15 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.15 | … Nature, ed. David Fate Norton and Mary J. Norton (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000) 1.4.6.15; SBN 259. All refer… |