摘要：Hume’s theory of personal identity is the one thing in which he confesses to
having made “considerable mistakes” in the Appendix to the Treatise (App. 1).
There is little consensus, however, on what exactly was the source of his
discontent. There is not time in this paper to discuss the multitude of opinions
that have been given on the Appendix, but in what follows I will explain what I
think was troubling Hume. I think that Hume finds that his explanation of how
we attribute simplicity and identity to our minds fails once we are aware that the
mind is a bundle of all our perceptions. I will then briefly discuss Pitson’s
criticism of this sort of interpretation, concluding that Pitson’s objections are
unsuccessful.
