Thiel, Udo · 2011
The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume
Thiel, Udo (2011). “The Early Modern Subject Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity From Descartes to Hume.” key chapters are 13 and 14.
27
citations of the Treatise
185
paragraphs reached
21%
focus on the core paragraphs
5.44
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages and cites something rare.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 3%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 19%Immateriality of the soul 78%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
- T 2.3.4.1 no other paper reaches it
- T 2.3.3.10 1 other papers reach it
- T 2.3.3.9 1 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Mcintyre 2009 similarity 0.95
Hume and the Problem of Personal Identity - Noonan 2012 similarity 0.88
The Self and Personal Identity - McIntyre 2003 similarity 0.88
So Great a Question A Critical Study of Raymond Martin and John Barresi - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.82
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 1: Of Ideas, their Origin, Composition, Connexion, Abstraction, &c
Part 2: Of the ideas of space and time
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
Book 2: Of the Passions
Part 1: Of Pride and Humility
Part 3: Of the will and direct passions
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 |
|---|---|---|
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …elevance of Book II to his account of personal identity. Other important sections include I.iv.5 on the immaterialit… |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …t reappears in the section on personal identity. It should be noted at the outset that in I.iv.6 Hume equates the qu… |
| (Treatise, pp. 259, 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …iv.6 Hume equates the question of personal identity with that of the identity of the mind (Treatise, pp. 259, 260)-but unlike Locke, h… |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …y and indivisibility of the human soul as substance is dealt with in the previous section I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). Th… |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | … I.iv.5 (ibid., p. 242). There, certain 'theologians' are Hume's target. Clearly, section I.iv.5 on immateriality pr… |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …s linked to his discussion of identity in earlier sections in the Treatise, especially to I.iv.2 (ibid., pp. 189-90;… |
| I.i.5 Citation pattern | T 1.1.5 (10 paragraphs) | …identity is 'apply'd in its strictest sense to constant and unchangeable objects' (ibid., I.i.5, p. 14). In the sec… |
| I.ii.3 Citation pattern | T 1.2.3 (19 paragraphs) | …seem puzzling. Hume explains this, however, in an earlier section of the Treatise (ibid., I.ii.3). Here he argues th… |
| I.iv.2 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (65 paragraphs) | …of both invariableness and uninterruptedness of perception, and he does this at length in I.iv.2 (ibid., pp. 201-5),… |
| (Treatise, pp. 259-62) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (7 paragraphs) | …ich we ascribe to the mind of man' Hume at last returns to the issue of personal identity (Treatise, pp. 259-62)-to his account, tha… |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …ty is not relevant here; but he does not explain why. It should be obvious, however, from I.iv.5, where he argues th… |
| (Treatise, p. 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …gards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves. The first is our present subject' (Treatise, p. 253): that is, here, in … |
| (p.401) Checked by model | T 2.3.1 (5 paragraphs) | …ptions of which one belongs to my idea of myself, whereas the other does not.39 Hume says (p.401) that he could solve… |
| Treatise I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | … of the mind as a substance is an 'unintelligible' one (ibid.)-a point that Hume makes in Treatise I.iv.5. 'We have no idea o… |
| (Treatise, p. 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …ume states, rather, that 'consciousness is nothing but a reflected thought or perception' (Treatise, p. 635). This is his only e… |
| (Treatise, p. 634) Citation pattern | Appendix (6 paragraphs) | … thing else but the perceptions', is what I discover 'when I turn my reflexion on myself' (Treatise, p. 634). In reflection, our… |
| (Treatise, p. 190) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | …ions. For Hume, 'all actions and sensations of the mind are known to us by consciousness' (Treatise, p. 190).47 Thus, 'conscious… |
| (Treatise, p. 212) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ns, which being immediately present to us by consciousness, command our strongest assent' (Treatise, p. 212). It is clearly the … |
| (Treatise, p. 318) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (5 paragraphs) | … have seen. Moreover, when Hume speaks, for example, of the 'impression or consciousness' (Treatise, p. 318) and the 'immediate … |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …e, 3 vols. (1898), vol. 1, p. 317. (13) Ibid., p. 323. (14) Ibid., p. 325. For section I.iv.5 and its importance … |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …the Simplicity of the Soul', Hume Studies, 21 (1995), 25-45. For the relationship between I.iv.5 and 6, see 26. See … |
| I.iv.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (24 paragraphs) | …fied complex as simple and strictly identical' (p. 25). But Hume refers to Shaftesbury in I.iv.6, not in the Appendi… |
| (Treatise, pp. 252-3) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (5 paragraphs) | … of different perceptions', then there is 'properly no.identity' of the self through time (Treatise, pp. 252-3). Hume's critics, su… |
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(p.418) Checked by model | T 2.3.3.9 to T 2.3.4.1 (3 paragraphs) | …re closely, however, to see what his own view is that he thinks is so 'peculiar to himself'. (p.418) 13.3. What is Hume'… |
| (Treatise, p. 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …me without a perception, and never can observe [my italics] any thing but the perception' (Treatise, p. 252). His statements abo… |
| (Treatise, p. 317) Citation pattern | T 2.1.11 (3 paragraphs) | …n, that 'tis not possible to imagine, that any thing can in this particular go beyond it' (Treatise, p. 317). Referring explicit… |
| I.iv.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (42 paragraphs) | …and Tomaselli (1996), pp. 175-90. As Wright emphasises, referring especially to Treatise, I.iv.5, and the essay 'On … |