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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... testimony for any kind of miracle has ever amounted to a proba- bility, much less to a proof” (EHU, 10.35, emphasis ... testimony in behalf of miracles. This, I will argue, is false. INTRODUCTION 3 Nor is part 2 simply an add-on ...
... testimony in behalf of miracles. Turning to testimony, Hume begins by acknowledging its importance as a source of well-founded belief: We may observe, that there is no species of reasoning more common, more useful, and even necessary to ...
... testimony given in its behalf. If an event is extraordinary or marvelous, then, to repeat Hume's exact words, “the evidence, resulting from the testimony, admits of a diminution, greater or less, in proportion as the fact is more or ...
Robert J. Fogelin. testimony increases, perhaps amounting to what Hume is ... testimony evaluated by the direct method amounts to a proof that a certain ... behalf of a miracle of any kind; the task of part 2 is to show that reports ...
... testimony. An important impli- cation of the possibility ofa conflict ... behalf. It seems more reasonable to treat the report as a hoax or perhaps as ... testimony simply overrides the initially strong negative pre- sumption generated ...
Inhalt
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4 | |
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 |