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A TEORIA HUMEANA DA IDENTIDADE PESSOAL
Authors: Fábio Augusto Guzzo
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In the first part of the paper, I present the infamous humean theory of personal
identity. Infamous, because his own author rejected it in the Appendix of his greater
work, the Treatise of Human Nature. In the second part, I present the Appendix. The
fundamental question is: why does Hume rejected his early theory? The
commentators divides themselves between those that see a minor, thecnical problem
in the explanation of the belief in personal identity, and those that see a major,
philosophical problem, which would affect not only the section “Of personal
identity” but also the whole empiricist project developed in the Treatise. In the third
part, I expose some of the (thecnical) problems that may have led to the insatifaction
presented by the Appendix. In the fourth part, I expose the ontological interpretation,
which see in the Appendix the emergence of a philosophical problem. I try to show
its implausibility.