ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to clarify Hume’s account of the self through careful analysis of his writings. I first examine the ideas of the self that Hume rejects, and then investigate his positive stance and view of the self by drawing a parallel between his accounts of external objects and the self. Finally, I discuss his psychological account of our belief in the identical self in detail. In so doing, I show that although Hume may seem to reject the existence of a self altogether, he allows a self to have some presence in our life.
