Humean Bodies and their Consequences by Ruth Weintraub

Author:Ruth Weintraub
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783031507991
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

9.5 Hume’s Nominalism from the Materialist Perspective

When we encounter an Idealist individual, we have an impression, and the corresponding idea gets to be included in the appropriate revival set(s). What does the Materialist revival set look like? Strawson (1989) thinks an idea of a particular material object is a “relative idea”, standing in the relation of cause to our perception and is not itself a perception (Sect. 3.​1).10 But, as Flage points out, Hume is committed to thinking that we do not know what, if anything, the relative idea as characterised by Strawson singles out:[There is no guarantee] that the cause of p is…a material object: it could be…anything that is not a perception…given Hume’s scepticism [about the causes of our impressions], there is no more guarantee that the relative idea singles out anything. (2007, p. 151–2, original italics)11

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