Space and the self in Hume's Treatise
Marina Frasca-Spada's rich and original study examines Hume's discussion of the idea of space in his Treatise on Human Nature and connects it to eighteenth-century works in natural philosophy, mathematics and literature. Her analysis points the way to a reassessment of the central current interpretative questions in Hume studies.
Print Book, English, 1998
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 1998
xiii, 220 pages ; 23 cm
9780521620918, 9780521891622, 0521620910, 0521891620
37180051
Part I. The Two Parts of Hume's System of Space: the Centrality of the Self: 1. Reality and the coloured points; 2. A bundle of (organised) perceptions; 3. Intermezzo: the minds of an author and his readers; Part II. Hume's Objections Answer 'D': Clues to the Operations of the Mind: 3. Truth, passion and the a priori; 4. Talking about a vacuum; Conclusion. Space and the self.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge