A Defense of Hume on MiraclesPrinceton University Press, 25 Μαρ 2010 - 128 σελίδες Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. |
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... direct test for evaluating testimony. Hume suggests a second method for evaluating testimony, this time concentrating on the nature of the event attested to. Suppose, for instance, that the fact, which the testimony endeavours to ...
... direct test. We start by considering the probability that a re- ported event could have occurred without taking into account the testimony given in its behalf. If an event is extraordinary or marvelous, then, to repeat Hume's exact ...
... direct and reverse methods for es- tablishing the evidential strength of testimony are precisely the same as Locke's “two foundations of credibility.” For reasons that will become evident, it will be useful to have a positive statement ...
... direct method that an event did take place, the other a proof based on the reverse method that it did not. In such a circumstance, to repeat Locke's words, “diligence, attention, and ex- actness are required, to form a right judgment ...
... direct and the reverse methods for evaluating testimony is that the evidential force of testimony can vary with context. If a person we take to be reliable tells us that a common sort of event has occurred, trusting to his reliability ...
Περιεχόμενα
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CHAPTER 2 Two Recent Critics | 32 |
CHAPTER 3 The Place of Of Miracles in Humes Philosophy | 54 |
APPENDIX 1 Humes Curious Relationship to Tillotson | 63 |
APPENDIX 2 Of Miracles | 68 |
Notes | 89 |
References | 95 |
Index | 97 |