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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... observe, that there is no species of reasoning more common, more useful, and even necessary to human life, than that which is derived from the testimony of men, and the reports of eye-witnesses and spectators. (EHU, 10.5) He then goes ...
... observation of the veracity of human testimony, and of the usual That is, in deciding whether a body of testimony is reliable, we should ask whether it is of a kind that usually yields conformity between facts and what are reported as ...
... observation, here is a contest of two opposite experiences; of which the one destroys the other, as far as its force goes, and the superior can only operate on the mind by the force, which remains. The very same principle of experience ...
... observation in like cases, and particular testimonies in that particular instance, favour or contradict it. (Ibid., sec. 9)4 What I have called Hume's direct and reverse methods for es- tablishing the evidential strength of testimony ...
... observation in like cases.” Common obser- vation in like cases may provide a proof that events of a certain kind could not have taken place. So, just as unimpeachable testi- mony can supply strong support for the occurrence of an ...
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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 |