Pitson, Tony · 2012
The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity. By Galen Strawson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. Xii + 165. ISBN 9780199608508
Pitson, Tony (2012). “The Evident Connexion Hume on Personal Identity. By Galen Strawson. Oxford Oxford University Press, 2011, Pp. Xii + 165. ISBN 9780199608508.” Philosophy 87(1): 127–132.
22
citations of the Treatise
277
paragraphs reached
26%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.53
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 11%Body and the external world 17%Immateriality of the soul 72%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Pitson 2013 similarity 0.94
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self - Robison 1974 similarity 0.92
Hume on Personal Identity - Winkler 2000 similarity 0.92
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.91
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Swain 2006 similarity 0.91
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy
Against the corpus
Where it cites the Treatise
Fewer citesmorenot citedone of the 15 core paragraphsfootnote
Book 1: Of the Understanding
Part 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 2: Of love and hatred
Appendix
Abstract
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 I.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …concerned with Hume's views on the mind a emerge from his account of personal identity in Treatise I.4.6 book is in three pa… |
| Treatise 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … pr writings on Hume; the second examines the 'bundle' accou mind or self associated with Treatise 1.4.6 and argues that H d… |
| Abstract §7 Citation pattern | Abs. 7 | …f no impression can be produced, he concludes that the term is altogether insignificant' (Abstract §7). This strongly sug… |
| T 1.4.3.10, 1 Citation pattern | T 1.4.3 (2 paragraphs) | …e moderate ('modest', 'mitigated') scepticism which Hume advocates in a number of places (T 1.4.3.10, 1.2.5.26 n. 12, EHU 1… |
| T 1.2.3 Citation pattern | T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) | … elucidating the meaning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2… |
| T 1.3.2-14 Citation pattern | T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs) | …ning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.… |
| T 1.4.5.3-4 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (2 paragraphs) | …ilosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.3-4; and the self T 1.4… |
| T 1.4.6.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.2 | …mple, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.3-4; and the self T 1.4.6.2). There are also pl… |
| T 2.2.6.2 Citation pattern | T 2.2.6.2 | …al bodies' (T Intro. §8) and also that 'the perceptions of the mind are perfectly known' (T 2.2.6.2). It seems doubtful… |
| T 1.1.5.6 Citation pattern | T 1.1.5.6 | …r effects we are able to observe (Introduction §11). This anticipates Hume's reference in T 1.1.5.6 to the association … |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …to which they belong, Strawson draws the conclusion that whatever may be Hume's target in T 1.4.6 it cannot be the be… |
| T 1.4.5.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5.5 | …g to Strawson, when Hume claims that experiences (or 'perceptions') may exist separately (T 1.4.5.5) he means only that… |
| T 1.4.2.40 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.40 | …parent acceptance of the possibility that a perception may exist separately from a mind - T 1.4.2.40). Hume makes it cle… |
| T 1.4.2.45 Citation pattern | T 1.2.4 (3 paragraphs) | …iments' which enable us to infer that all or our perceptio fact depend on our physiology (T 1.4.2.45). This opens the p … |
| T 1.1.7.7 Citation pattern | T 1.1.7.7 | …ies. Hume refers to ideas which are not 'in fact present to the mind, but only in power' (T 1.1.7.7); and his subsequen… |
| T 1.2.5.20 Citation pattern | T 1.2.5.20 | … and his subsequent account of the part played by brain traces in the relations of ideas (T 1.2.5.20) identifies a categ… |
| Appendix 20 Citation pattern | App. 20 | …finds personal identity', namely, 'The present philosophy so far has a promising aspect' (Appendix 20). But everything de… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …Strawson's interpretation, Hume does not appear to retract in the Appendix his account in T 1.4.6 of the mind or self… |
| Appendix 1 Citation pattern | App. 1 | … in T 1.4.6 of the mind or self as a bundle or system of perceptions. On the contrary, at Appendix 1 5 he repeats the cl… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …Strawson suggests that the central problem for Hume is that on his account of the self in T 1.4.6 our perceptions are… |
| T 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | … personal identity to be dealt with in Book 2 of the Treatise (and to which he alludes at T 1.4.6.5). He provides there… |
| T 1.4.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | … terms of relations among our perceptions in a way which reflects the view of the mind in T 1.4.6. Since the gist of … |