A Defense of Hume on MiraclesPrinceton University Press, 25.03.2010 - 128 Seiten 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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... argument itself, his ques- tions forced me to address those who are not already converts to Hume's position. James Fieser, a prodigious scholar, tracked down the exact sources of some obscure eighteenth-century ar- guments attacking ...
... concerning Human. This project was supported by the research funds associated with my holding the Sherman Fairchild Professorship in the Humanities at Dartmouth College. The Structure of Hume's Argument to the lowest species of.
... argument sufficient by itself to establish his fundamental theses concerning the status of testimony in behalf of miracles. This, I will argue, is false. INTRODUCTION 3 Nor is part 2 simply an add-on containing. 2 INTRODUCTION.
... argument begun in part 1. The second task of this work is to make good these interpretive claims. The third task is to respond specifically to attacks that Hume's treatment of miracles has encountered in recent litera- ture. This work ...
... argument by reminding his readers of the complexity and fallibility of causal reasoning. Though experience be our ... Argument to the lowest species of moral evidence. (EHU, 10.3) greater, in order to know the exact force of the. CHAPTER ...
Inhalt
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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 |