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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... kind: Hesitant as he was about accepting my reading of Hume, and hardly enthusiastic about Hume's argument itself, his ques- tions forced me to address those who are not already converts to Hume's position. James Fieser, a prodigious ...
... kind of miracle has ever amounted to a proba- bility, much less to a proof” (EHU, 10.35, emphasis added). The second common misreading of the text is that in part 1 Hume presents what he takes to be an a priori argument sufficient by ...
... any argument of this kind is derived from no other principle. greater, in order to know the exact force of the superior evidence. conformity of facts to the reports of witnesses. (EHU, 10.5). THE STRUCTURE OF HUME'S ARGUMENT 5.
... kind that usually yields conformity between facts and what are reported as facts.3 Hume goes on to specify two ways (or two directions) in which the evaluation of testimony can proceed. On the first approach, we focus on the quality of ...
... kind, offered by competent witnesses having no motives to deceive. Here Hume's discussion of testimony closely parallels one found in John Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding. There Locke remarks that “in things that happen ...
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 |