Hume And The Problem Of Miracles A Solution
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Hume And The Problem Of Miracles A Solution
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Author : M.P. Levine
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Hume And The Problem Of Miracles A Solution written by M.P. Levine and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.
This book developed from sections of my doctoral dissertation, "The Possibility of Religious Knowledge: Causation, Coherentism and Foundationalism," Brown University, 1982. However, it actually had its beginnings much earlier when, as an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, I first read Hume's "Of Miracles" and became interested in it. (Fascinated would be too strong. ) My teacher put the following marginal comment in a paper I wrote about it: "Suppose someone told you that they had been impregnated by an angel whispering into their ear. Wouldn't you think they had gone dotty?" She had spent time in England. I thought about it. I agreed that I would not have believed such testimony, but did not think this had much to do with Hume's argument against belief in miracles. What surprised me even more was the secondary literature. I became convinced that Hume's argument was misunderstood. My main thesis is established in Part I. This explains Hume's argument against justified belief in miracles and shows how it follows from, and is intrinsically connected with, his more general metaphysics. Part II Part I. It should give the reader a more complete understanding builds on of both the structure of Hume's argument and of his crucial and questionable premises. Chapters 5 and 11 are perhaps the most technical in the book, but they are also the least necessary. They can be skipped by the reader who is only interested in Hume on miracles.
David Hume S Argument Against Miracles
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Author : Francis Beckwith
language : en
Publisher: University Press of America
Release Date : 1989
David Hume S Argument Against Miracles written by Francis Beckwith and has been published by University Press of America this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Philosophy categories.
In this book the author offers a critical analysis of David Hume's argument against miracles from his Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, "Of Miracles" is one of the most influential works written in defense of the position that belief in supernatural occurrences is not reasonable. Using Hume's work as a point of departure, the author addresses the two most important epistemological questions asked about miracles: Is it ever reasonable to ascribe a divine source to an anomalous event in order to identify it as miraculous? and What theoretically entails sufficient evidence that a miracle has actually taken place? Contemporary rehabilitations of Hume's argument, as put forth by Antony Flew, Alastair McKinnon, and Patrick Nowell-Smith, are evaluated. Contents: Defining the Miraculous; Hume's Argument, Part 1;Hume's Argument, Part 2;The Rationality of Belief and the Existence of God; Contemporary Rehabilitations of Hume's Argument; and Miracles and Evidence.
Hume S Abject Failure
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Author : John Earman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-11-23
Hume S Abject Failure written by John Earman and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11-23 with Philosophy categories.
This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume's argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be made on the issues that Hume's essay so provocatively posed about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events.
Of Miracles
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Author : David Hume
language : en
Publisher: Open Court Classics
Release Date : 1985
Of Miracles written by David Hume and has been published by Open Court Classics this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Philosophy categories.
David Hume On Miracles Evidence And Probability
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Author : William L. Vanderburgh
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-04-04
David Hume On Miracles Evidence And Probability written by William L. Vanderburgh and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-04 with Philosophy categories.
David Hume’s argument against believing in miracles has attracted nearly continuous attention from philosophers and theologians since it was first published in 1748. Hume’s many commentators, however, both pro and con, have often misunderstood key aspects of Hume’s account of evidential probability and as a result have misrepresented Hume’s argument and conclusions regarding miracles in fundamental ways. This book argues that Hume’s account of probability descends from a long and laudable tradition that goes back to ancient Roman and medieval law. That account is entirely and deliberately non-mathematical. As a result, any analysis of Hume’s argument in terms of the mathematical theory of probability is doomed to failure. Recovering the knowledge of this ancient tradition of probable reasoning leads us to a correct interpretation of Hume’s argument against miracles, enables a more accurate understanding of many other episodes in the history of science and of philosophy, and may be also useful in contemporary attempts to weigh evidence in epistemically complex situations where confirmation theory and mathematical probability theory have proven to be less helpful than we would have hoped.
The Everlasting Check
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Author : Alexander George
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2016-01-05
The Everlasting Check written by Alexander George and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-05 with Philosophy categories.
A touchstone of the Enlightenment dispute between rationality and religious belief, David Hume’s essay “Of Miracles” has elicited much commentary from proponents and critics ever since it was published over 250 years ago. Alexander George’s lucid and sustained interpretation of Hume’s essay provides fresh insights into this provocative, occasionally elusive, and always subtle text. The Everlasting Check will be read with interest by both students new to Hume and seasoned scholars. George does justice to the letter and spirit of Hume’s essay, explaining the concepts and claims involved, making intelligible the essay’s structure, and clarifying remarks that have long puzzled readers. Properly interpreted, the essay’s central philosophical argument proves to be much hardier than Hume’s detractors suggest. George considers a range of objections to Hume—some recent, some perennial—and shows why most fail, either because they are based on misinterpretations or because the larger body of Hume’s philosophy answers them. Beyond an analysis and defense of Hume’s essay, George also offers a critique of his own, appealing to Ludwig Wittgenstein’s thoughts on magic and ritual to demonstrate that Hume misconstrues the character of religious belief and its relationship to evidence and confirmation. Raising a host of important questions about the connection between religious and empirically verified beliefs, George discusses why Hume’s master argument can fail to engage with committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation in general often proves ineffective in shaking people’s deeply held beliefs.
David Hume And The Problem Of Miracles
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Author : Robert Frederick Mulder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
David Hume And The Problem Of Miracles written by Robert Frederick Mulder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Miracles categories.
The Great Debate On Miracles
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Author : Robert M. Burns
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The Great Debate On Miracles written by Robert M. Burns and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Philosophy categories.
This book consists of a survey of the great debate on miracles, which, though it was a major feature of the English literary scene in the period in question, has never before been researched in depth. The arguments of Boyle, Locke, Clarke, and Butler (along with those of others) are considered, and Hume's famous essay "Of Miracles" is examined more closely than ever before.
A Dissertation On Miracles
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Author : George Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1766
A Dissertation On Miracles written by George Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1766 with Miracles categories.
A Dissertation On Miracles
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Author : George Campbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1812
A Dissertation On Miracles written by George Campbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1812 with Miracles categories.
