The Early Modern Subject

Acknowledgements; INTRODUCTION: Aims and Issues; PART I: THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND; 1 The 'Ontological' View of the Self: Scholastic and Cartesian Conceptions; 2 Metaphysical Alternatives. Conceptions of Identity, Morality, and the Afterlife; PART II: LOCKE'S SUBJECTIVIST REVOLUTION; 3 Locke on Identity, Consciousness, and Self-Consciousness; 4 Locke on Personal Identity: Consciousness, Memory, and Self-Concern; PART III: PROBLEMS WITH LOCKE. CRITIQUE AND DEFENCE; 5 The Notion of a Person and the Role of Consciousness and Memory; 6 The Charge of Circularity and the Argument from the Transitivity of Identity; PART IV: SUBJECTIVITY AND IMMATERIALIST METAPHYSICS OF THE MIND; 7 The Soul, Human and Universal; 8 Relating to the Soul and Pure Thought, Original Sin and the Afterlife; PART V: SUSBSTANCE, APPERCEPTION AND IDENTITY: LEIBNIZ, WOLFF, AND BEYOND; 9 Individuation and Identity, Apperception and Consciousness in Leibniz and Wolff; 10 Beyond Leibniz and Wolff. From Immortality to the Necessary Unity of the Subject; 11 From the Critique of Wolffian Apperception to the Idea of the Pre-existence of Self-Consciousness; PART VI: BUNDLES AND SELVES: HUME IN CONTEXT; 12 Hume and the Belief in Personal Identity; 13 Hume and the Bundle View of the Self; CONCLUSION: BEYOND HUME AND WOLFF; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Udo Thiel studied Philosophy at the Universities of Marburg, Bonn, and Oxford. He began as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Sydney, later moving to the Australian National University in Canberra where he became a Senior Lecturer and then Associate Professor. In 2009 he moved to Austria where he is now Professor of the History of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Graz. His research focuses on early modern epistemology, metaphysics, and philosophy of mind.