David

• David Hume


  Scottish philosopher, economist and historian in the Age of Enlightenment
• David Hume


  • Fierce opponent of Descartes Rationalism
  • One of the three figureheads (Locke and George Berkeley) who influenced the British Empiricism movement
• Rationalism


  A theory that reason, rather than experience, is the foundation of all knowledge
• Empiricism


  The idea that the origin of all knowledge is a sense experience, emphasizing the role of experience and evidence in forming concepts
• Self (according to Hume)


  Nothing else but a bundle of impressions
• Types of mental states (according to Hume)

  • Impressions
  • Ideas
• Impressions


  The basic objects of our experience or sensation, forming the core of our thoughts, vivid because they are products of our direct experience with the world
• Ideas


  Copies of impressions
• David Hume: 'Self is simply "a bundle of collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement."'