Body, Mind and Self in Hume's Critical Realism

by Fred Wilson

This essay proposes that Hume's non-substantialist bundle account of minds is basically correct. The concept of a person is not a metaphysical notion but a forensic one, that of a being who enters into the moral and normative relations of civil society. A person is a bundle but it is also a structured bundle. Hume's metaphysics of relations is argued must be replaced by a more adequate one such as that of Russell, but beyond that Hume's account...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311032668X
• ISBN13: 9783110326680
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"