Hume's Quandary

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The title of the Grice/Haugeland piece on Hume is "Hume's quandary about personal identity", and it's dated 1979.

This connects with Grice's long-standing interest in the self as logical construction.

Quandary, cfr. vagary, vagaries.

From the online etymolgical dictionary:

"quandary: 1570s, "state of perplexity," of unknown origin, perhaps a quasi-Latinism based on L. quando "when.""

Grice on the self as logical construction.

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Referred to by Pears,

"Hume's system: an examination of the first book of his Treatise"
1990

As Pears notes, the Grice/Haugeland piece deals with Hume's 'retraction' to his theory in the "Appendix" to the Treatise.

"Grice and Haugeland argue that ... the evidence for external causal sequences would be too unreliable to give the total mind the idea of causation."