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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... reverse method of evaluat- ing testimony. It is clear that Hume does not invoke either ofthese methods in support of a general skepticism concerning testimony; in- deed, in this discussion his radical skeptical arguments are kept ...
... 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 of 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, and to propor- tion the assent to the different evidence and probability of ...
... reverse method for evaluating testimony. An important impli- cation of the possibility ofa conflict between the direct and the reverse methods for evaluating testimony is that the evidential force of testimony can vary with context. If ...
... reverse method, we will eventually conclude that the probability that all (or even most) of these stories are true is so low that we would not believe them even if they were told to us by Cato. As a result, we will not credit any single ...
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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 |