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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... witnesses and spectators. (EHU, 10.5) He then goes on to claim that the evaluation of testimony, though perhaps not strictly speaking the same as the evaluation of a causal claim, is at least very much like it. This species of reasoning ...
... witnesses contradict each other; when they are but few, or of a doubtful character; when they have an interest in what they affirm; when they deliver their testimony with hesitation, or on the contrary, with too violent asseverations ...
... witnesses, gives us also, in this case, another degree of assurance against the fact, which they endeavour to establish; from which contradiction there necessarily arises a counterpoise, and mutual destruction of belief and authority. I ...
... witnesses concur with one another, rather than contradict one another. 2. The witnesses are many, not few. 3. They are of unimpeachable, rather than of doubtful, character. 4. They are disinterested, not interested, parties. 5. They ...
... witnesses with video cam- eras, and so on, putting it beyond doubt that he did so. (It's a knack, he tells reporters, that he picked up as an undergraduate at Yale.) In this case, the full satisfaction of the direct test of testimony ...
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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 |