Ware, Owen Ainslie, Donald C. · 2014
Consciousness and Personal Identity
Ware, Owen Ainslie, Donald C. (2014). “Consciousness and Personal Identity.” In The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century Philosophy, ed. Garrett, Aaron, 245–264.
23
citations of the Treatise
100
paragraphs reached
35%
focus on the core paragraphs
3.96
surprise of rarest citation
Ranges beyond the core passages, through commonly cited ones.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 76%Causation and the Appendix problem 0%Body and the external world 24%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 2.1.11.1 4 other papers reach it
- T 2.1.8.9 4 other papers reach it
- T 2.1.6.8 5 other papers reach it
Nearest papers
- Penelhum 2000 similarity 0.89
Themes in Hume The Self, the Will, Religion - Ashley 1974 similarity 0.88
Humes Theory of the Self and its Identity - Roth 1990 similarity 0.88
Hume and James on Personal Identity - Giles 1993 similarity 0.87
The No-Self Theory Hume, Buddhism, and Personal Identity - Greco 2015 similarity 0.87
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
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2.1.2-5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.2.1 to T 2.1.5.11 (29 paragraphs) | …ion of our mental operations, what he calls "reflection" or "internal sense" (Locke 1689: 2.1.2-5, 104-6). His distin… |
| 2.1.4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.4 (5 paragraphs) | …y reason whereof there come to be Ideas of these Operations in the Understanding" (ibid.: 2.1.4, 105). Such an equa… |
| 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | … with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.3; SBN 252). He does … |
| 1.4.6.3 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.3 | … without a perception, and never can observe any thing but the perception" (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.3; SBN 252 - original… |
| 1.4.2.6 Citation pattern | T 1.4.2.6 | …ident these ideas of self and person are never very fix'd nor determinate" (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.2.6; SBN 189-90). Thus … |
| 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | …imagination" and "as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (ibid.: 1.4.6.5; SBN 253). The bund… |
| 1.4.6.9 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.9 | …t" unity, it nonetheless has "imperfect" unity in the eyes of the observer (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.9; SBN 256). The caus… |
| 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …e mind bundle yield associations between an observer's ideas of these perceptions (ibid.: 1.4.6.16; SBN 260). Hume thi… |
| 1.4.6.19 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.19 | …dures, his several parts are still connected by the relation of causation. (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.19; SBN 261) Just as … |
| 1.4.6.21 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.21 | … and are to be regarded rather as grammatical than as philosophical difficulties" (ibid.: 1.4.6.21; SBN 262). Hume exp… |
| SBN 636 Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | … mind never discerns "real connexions among distinct existences" (Hume 1739-40: Appendix, SBN 636). Unfortunately Hum… |
| 1.4.6.16 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.16 | …ntrospecting, Hume relies on the association of ideas of those perceptions (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.16; SBN 259-60). So he… |
| SBN 635-36 Citation pattern | Appendix (7 paragraphs) | …nciples that unite perceptions in our "thought or consciousness" (Hume 1739-40: Appendix, SBN 635-36). We take this to m… |
| 1.4.6.5 Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.5 | … identity "as it regards our passions or the concern we take in ourselves" (Hume 1739-40: 1.4.6.5; SBN 253). The core… |
| 2.1.5.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5.5 | …f the mechanics of these passions, the "double relation of ideas and impressions" (ibid.: 2.1.5.5; SBN 286), he is be… |
| 2.1.8.9 Citation pattern | T 2.1.8.9 | …om us, and are never consider'd as connected with our being and existence" (Hume 1739-40: 2.1.8.9; SBN 302) while oth… |
| 2.1.5 Citation pattern | T 2.1.5 (11 paragraphs) | …some respect with the person, the positive or negative reaction is "transfuse[d]" (ibid.: 2.1.5; SBN 290) into a po… |
| 2.1.6 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6 (11 paragraphs) | … of her or him as defined by that feature. Hume puts various "limitations" (Hume 1739-40: 2.1.6; SBN 290-94) on the… |
| 2.1.11.1 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.1 | …ature, we cannot sustain a conception of someone that is not "seconded" by others (ibid.: 2.1.11.1; SBN 316). Note tha… |
| 2.1.11.4 Citation pattern | T 2.1.11.4 | …re, is related to ourselves must be conceived with a like vivacity of conception. (ibid.: 2.1.11.4; SBN 317, emphasis … |
| 2.1.6.8 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6.8 | …" into which people fall independently of their own feelings on the matter (Hume 1739-40: 2.1.6.8; SBN 293). The indi… |
| 2.1.6.9 Citation pattern | T 2.1.6.9 | …h sympathy and regularized by general rules, create the social terrain we inhabit (ibid.: 2.1.6.9; SBN 293-94). Hume … |
| 2.1.7-10 Citation pattern | T 2.1.7.1 to T 2.1.10.9 n57 (44 paragraphs) | …ormity"), property and riches, and "external advantages and disadvantages" (Hume 1739-40: 2.1.7-10; SBN 294-316). This… |