The Early Modern Subject
Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume
Udo Thiel
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
INTRODUCTION: Aims and Issues
PART I: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND
1. The 'Ontological' View of the Self: Scholastic and Cartesian Conceptions
2. Metaphysical Alternatives. Conceptions of Identity, Morality, and the Afterlife
PART II: LOCKE'S SUBJECTIVIST REVOLUTION
3. Locke on Identity, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness
4. Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness, Memory, and Self-Concern
PART III: PROBLEMS WITH LOCKE. CRITIQUE AND DEFENCE
5. The Notion of a Person and the Role of Consciousness and Memory
6. The Charge of Circularity and the Argument from the Transitivity of Identity
PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY AND IMMATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE MIND
7. The Soul, Human and Universal
8. Relating to the Soul and Pure Thought, Original Sin and the Afterlife
PART V: SUSBSTANCE, APPERCEPTION AND IDENTITY: LEIBNIZ, WOLFF, AND BEYOND
9. Individuation and Identity, Apperception and Consciousness in Leibniz and Wolff
10. Beyond Leibniz and Wolff. From Immortality to the Necessary "Unity of the Subject"
11. From the Critique of Wolffian Apperception to the Idea of the "Pre-existence" of Self-Consciousness
PART VI: BUNDLES AND SELVES: HUME IN CONTEXT
12. Hume and the Belief in Personal Identity
13. Hume and the Bundle View of the Self
CONCLUSION: BEYOND HUME AND WOLFF
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
