Ep. 28 - Arif Ahmed on David Hume’s Disturbing Conception of the Self
The Ralston College Podcast
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Hume and Empiricism in the T and A
Hume begins section six of this part of the treatise by directly attacking, from his empiricous position, that most secure, apparently most secure, part of the cartesian layout. What hume says is that if we actually attend to our own experience, and by this he means our own inner experienc ad not just out of experience, but the kind of thing that you can get from things like introspection or dreaming. And i would suggest that you read that if you like t see the kind of ultimately despairing but then i no a phlegmatic position that hume takes right at the end of book one of the Treatise.
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