Psychopathology, Personal Identity and David Hume

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dc.contributor.authorCameron, Evan Wm.
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-12T19:46:38Z
dc.date.available2021-02-12T19:46:38Z
dc.date.issued1978
dc.description.abstractConsider our idea of 'personal identity'. Of what simple ideas is it compounded, and from what impressions are they derived? David Hume was unable to answer the questions to his own satisfaction, and yet he could have answered them, I think, and many more, had he considered the implications of an off-hand remark that he made early on within his Treatise of Human Nature: " . . . in madness . . . our ideas may approach to our impressions" (page 2), for what is 'madness', succinctly, but a loss of personal identity? Hume's Treatise of Human Nature is mistitled, for it remains unconcerned with the possible abnormalities of the mind. I suggest within this essay, however, that had Hume considered the possibilities of abnormality implicit in his theory of the normal mind, he could not only have solved the problem of personal identity but established with remarkable accuracy the foundations of psychopathology as well.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/38101
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.subjectAutobiographyen_US
dc.subjectCameron, Evanen_US
dc.subjectCognitionen_US
dc.subjectConsciousnessen_US
dc.subjectEmbodimenten_US
dc.subjectEmotionen_US
dc.subjectEpistemologyen_US
dc.subjectHume, Daviden_US
dc.subjectIdentifyingen_US
dc.subjectSelf-identityen_US
dc.subjectIllusionen_US
dc.subjectImageryen_US
dc.subjectMemoryen_US
dc.subjectNeurosesen_US
dc.subjectPerceptionen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophyen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophy, History ofen_US
dc.subjectPredictingen_US
dc.subjectPsychologyen_US
dc.subjectPsychology, History ofen_US
dc.subjectPsychopathologyen_US
dc.subjectPsychosesen_US
dc.subjectScience, Philosophy ofen_US
dc.subjectMeehl, Paul E.en_US
dc.subjectTreatise of Human Natureen_US
dc.subjectRado, S.en_US
dc.subjectEysenck, H. J.en_US
dc.subjectSommerhoff, Gerden_US
dc.titlePsychopathology, Personal Identity and David Humeen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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