Winkler, Kenneth P. · 2000
All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume
Winkler, Kenneth P. (2000). “All Is Revolution in Us Personal Identity in Shaftesbury and Hume.” Hume Studies 26(1): 3–40.
49
citations of the Treatise
67
paragraphs reached
40%
focus on the core paragraphs
4.84
surprise of rarest citation
Focused on personal identity, and cites something almost nobody else does.
Theme mix
Self and the passions 0%Causation and the Appendix problem 24%Body and the external world 25%Immateriality of the soul 51%
Themes are fitted on citations outside 1.4.6 and the Appendix, which nearly every paper cites.
Its rarest citations
Nearest papers
- Waxman 1992 similarity 0.97
Humes Quandary Concerning Personal Identity - Swain 2006 similarity 0.96
Personal Identity and the Skeptical System of Philosophy - Robison 1974 similarity 0.96
Hume on Personal Identity - Ellis 2006 similarity 0.95
The Contents of Humes Appendix and the Source of His Despair - Pitson 2013 similarity 0.93
Skeptical Realism and Hume on the Self
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 3: Of knowledge and probability
Part 4: Of the Sceptical and other systems of philosophy
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 |
|---|---|---|
| (T 270-271) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (4 paragraphs) | …ing truth and falshood, reason and folly, without knowing upon what principles I proceed" (T 270-271).9 Shaftesbury had b… |
| (T 11) Citation pattern | T 1.1.4 (3 paragraphs) | …reporting the incessant change within us, as Hume does at Treatise I i 4, where he speaks (T 11) of the "constant re… |
| (T 264) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (2 paragraphs) | …ion and solitude, and speaks, as Shaftesbury does, of his isolation from "human commerce" (T 264). One crucial differ… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …is I take to be the case with regard to the identity we ascribe to plants and vegetables. (T 254) For an illustratio… |
| (T 254) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …e, and the identity of plants and animals. See his Moralists: or, Philosophical rhapsody" (T 254). For the kind of p… |
| (T 1) Citation pattern | T 1.1.1.1 | … which they strike upon the mind": the more lively are impressions, the less lively ideas (T 1). The "true idea of … |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …t as a system" of such perceptions, "link'd together by the relation of cause and effect" (T 261). One perception pro… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …e and effect" (T 261). One perception produces another and is later "expell'd" by a third (T 261). "In this respect,"… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …r changes he endures, his several parts are still connected by the relation of causation. (T 261) Elsewhere in Treat… |
| (T 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations" (T 253). "The comparison of… |
| (T 252) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ceed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement" (T 252). In these various … |
| (T 233) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (3 paragraphs) | …e has no notion at all of substance, or no notion that distinguishes it from a perception (T 233). A reader of Locke … |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | … reviewing that metaphysics, that "so far I seem to be attended with sufficient evidence" (T 635). The failure he adm… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …d him "to deny the strict and proper identity and simplicity of a self or thinking being" (T 633). These arguments oc… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …gard to the mind, that we have no notion of it, distinct from the particular perceptions" (T 635). "So far," he then … |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …but the seeming evidence of the precedent reasonings cou'd have induc'd me to receive it. (T 635)36 There is a footn… |
| (T 259) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …e some real bond among his perceptions, or only feel one among the ideas we form of them" (T 259). And he continues t… |
| (T 260) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … them, because of the union of their ideas in the imagination, when we reflect upon them" (T 260). The failure to whi… |
| (T 633) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14.12 to App. 11 (4 paragraphs) | …which seem to attend every explication, that human reason can give of the material world" (T 633).38 But "upon a more… |
| (T 265) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (3 paragraphs) | …e them "entirely in that succession of perceptions, which constitutes our self or person" (T 265). Despite the doubts… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …erson is secure. He had claimed, after all, to identify the "true idea of the human mind" (T 261). But it is nonethel… |
| (T 207) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …ations, and suppos'd, tho' falsely, to be endow'd with a perfect simplicity and identity" (T 207). One feature of th… |
| (T
254-255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (4 paragraphs) | …is I take to be the case with regard to the identity we ascribe to plants and vegetables. (T 254-255).42 The passage dis… |
| (T 203-204) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (5 paragraphs) | … idea by an act or operation of the mind, similar to that by which we conceive the other" (T 203-204).44 Second, tendenc… |
| (T 262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | … gives rise to some fiction or imaginary principle of union, as we have already observ'd" (T 262). These passages su… |
| (T 202) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (3 paragraphs) | …, when we attribute it to our resembling perceptions, notwithstanding their interruption" (T 202). Hume's T 255 refer… |
| (T 255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …cular, nor find any thing invariable and uninterrupted to justify our notion of identity" (T 255).45 The lesson I dr… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ion of cause and effect, and mutually produce, destroy, influence, and modify each other" (T 261).46 Second, Hume sa… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …nd effect, and with the knowledge of a particular system of causally related perceptions (T 261). Third, only cause… |
| (T 262) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (2 paragraphs) | …rder to "comprehend times, and circumstances, and actions, which we have entirely forgot" (T 262). Fourth, identity … |
| (T 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | … this simplicity, and the center of all the different parts and qualities of the object. (T 263) The account is for… |
| (T 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | …ausation be the relation that unites, in imagination, the "different co- existent parts" (T 263) of the mind? It mi… |
| (T 635) Citation pattern | Appendix (5 paragraphs) | …*)? How, exactly, does it involve a belief in "real" or "perfect" simplicity and identity (T 635)? (Note that (i**) c… |
| (T 270-271) Citation pattern | T 1.4.7 (4 paragraphs) | …ing truth and falshood, reason and folly, without knowing upon what principles I proceed. (T 270-271). It might be said … |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …hange (or revolution) in character or disposition, even if the person is in no way simple (T 261). This corrects Shaf… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …r if there were real connections between them, "there wou'd be no difficulty in the case" (T 636). But the true metap… |
| (T 172) Citation pattern | T 1.3.14 (2 paragraphs) | …s a matter of fact, adequate to the scope of the job" assigned to them in Treatise I iv 6 (T 172).59 This account is … |
| (T 620) Citation pattern | T 3.3.6 (3 paragraphs) | …ssage emphasized by Baier, speaks of the virtuous mind's ability to "bear its own survey" (T 620). And Shaftesbury de… |
| (T 253) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | … minds. 17. Locke's analogy between life and consciousnessÂ-"a great analogy," said Hume (T 253), who followed Locke… |
| (T 261) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …, because "whatever changes he endures," the person's parts remain connected by causation (T 261). 24. Jane L. Mclnt… |
| (T 241) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …eologians. That soul issues in various modifications, without itself undergoing variation (T 241). Hume takes this to… |
| (T 636) Citation pattern | Appendix (3 paragraphs) | …t, his metaphysics leaves him with a problem, and since he claims to be open to solutions (T 636), in the end he may … |
| (T 240) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …se, and the unity of that substance, in which . . . both thought and matter . . . inhere" (T 240). In Spinoza's view,… |
| (T 241) Citation pattern | T 1.4.5 (4 paragraphs) | …re, are able to produce any composition or change in its perfect simplicity and identity" (T 241). 49. At T 107-109,… |
| " (109) Checked by model | T 1.3.9 (2 paragraphs) | …1). 49. At T 107-109, in explaining how we arrive at our belief in a "system of realities" (109) beyond those we sen… |
| (T 203) Citation pattern | T 1.4.2 (4 paragraphs) | … idea by an act or operation of the mind, similar to that by which we conceive the other" (T 203). Causation plays on… |
| (T 255) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6 (3 paragraphs) | …philosophers are committed to their own simplicity, but they may well feel a "propensity" (T 255) toward the commitme… |
| (T 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | …oward the conception of themselves as a "center" of their "different parts and qualities" (T 263). It can perhaps be … |
| (T 263) Citation pattern | T 1.4.6.22 to T 1.4.7.1 (3 paragraphs) | …y of the self. What needs unpacking, I think, is Hume's conception of the self's "center" (T 263). Unlike, for exampl… |