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Department Member, Department for Continuing Education
Thesis Title: Hume's Conception of Character
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Alex Neill
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About
I recently completed my PhD thesis titled "Hume's Conception of Character" and am currently working in university administration at the University of Oxford while trying to write up parts of my thesis for publication and searching for my first academic position.
My PhD research reconstructs Hume's conception of character from comments made throughout his works. Hume uses character as a central concept in his moral philosophy, aesthetics and it appears in several of his essays and his History of England, but he doesn't give an explicit account of what he takes character to be. The problem is exacerbated by Hume's repudiation of concepts such as substance and his alleged bundle-theory of the self, which seems to preclude his later relying on 'durable qualities of the mind.'
I argue that character is, for Hume, a heterogeneous concept. Several different elements, including the passions, natural abilities and habits contribute to character. These combine to form an integrated, socially complex character, which resists being broken down into individual traits.
My other research interests include 18th century philosophy in general and aesthetics.
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