Who Asserted That Self Does Not Exist?

Chapter XXVII on “Identity and Diversity” in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Locke, 1689/1997) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualisations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, in which Locke gives his account of identity and personal identity in the second edition ...

Who argued that there is no self?

David Hume* continued in the empiricist tradition of John Locke, believing that the source of all genuine knowledge is our direct sense experience.

Who is the philosopher who believes that the self does not exist?

One notable application of the identity of indiscernibles was by René Descartes in his Meditations on First Philosophy. Descartes concluded that he could not doubt the existence of himself (the famous cogito ergo sum argument), but that he could doubt the (separate) existence of his body.