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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... reason, none of the later miracles claimed in support of the Roman Catholic Church should be acknowledged. When it appeared in 1749, Middleton's work caused a sensation, whereas David Hume's recently published Enquiry concerning Human ...
... reasons of prudence, decided not to do so.1 It appears in the Enquiry as one oftwo sections on religious matters. The second, which follows it, is titled “Of a particular Providence and of a future State.” Neither essay is friendly to ...
... reason, why we place any credit in witnesses and historians, is not derived from any connexion, which we perceive a priori, between testimony and reality, but because we are accustomed to find a conformity between them. But when the ...
... reasons that will become evident, it will be useful to have a positive statement of the first—the direct—method for estab- lishing the evidential force of testimony. We can do this by re- placing testimonial weaknesses with testimonial ...
... reason to distrust Henry, his stories may strike us as remarkable, but still believ- able. (No one of them is in a league with Bush's tightrope walk- ing.) Many people have had chance encounters of this sort, and unless we have other ...
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 |