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René Descartes and David Hume are linked as central figures in the history of modern philosophy and the development of the mind-body problem [1]. Their contrasting views on the nature of the self and consciousness are explicitly compared in academic literature [2], [3], and [4].
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The Hard Problem of Consciousness | Springer Nature Link link.springer.com 2 facts
claimThe mind-body problem became the central question of epistemology and modern philosophy due to the problematization of the mind and its relation to reality by René Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant.
claimDavid Hume suggested in 2017 that there is no self in the sense of Descartes's cogito, but only a flux of impressions and ideas, including memories of past impressions, which leads to the fiction of a self-identity.
Self-Consciousness - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
referenceUdo Thiel examined the history of self-consciousness and personal identity from René Descartes to David Hume in his 2011 book 'The Early Modern Subject: Self-Consciousness and Personal Identity from Descartes to Hume'.
Consciousness (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 ... plato.stanford.edu 1 fact
claimRené Descartes (1644) and John Searle (1992) posit that conscious experiences exist as modes or states of a conscious self or subject, rather than as isolated mental atoms, a view contrasted by David Hume (1739).