Hume, Holism, and Miracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Hume, Holism, and Miracles write by David Johnson. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Hume, Holism, and Miracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. David Johnson seeks to overthrow one of the widely accepted tenets of Anglo-American philosophy—that of the success of the Humean case against the rational credibility of reports of miracles. In a manner unattempted in any other single work, he meticulously examines all the main variants of Humean reasoning on the topic of miracles: Hume's own argument and its reconstructions by John Stuart Mill, J. L. Mackie, Antony Flew, Jordan Howard Sobel, and others.Hume's view, set forth in his essay "Of Miracles," has been widely thought to be correct. Johnson reviews Hume's thesis with clarity and elegance and considers the arguments of some of the most prominent defenders of Hume's case against miracles. According to Johnson, the Humean argument on this topic is entirely without merit, its purported cogency being simply a philosophical myth.
David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability
David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability write by William L. Vanderburgh. This book was released on 2019-04-04. David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Of Miracles
Of Miracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Of Miracles write by David Hume. This book was released on 1985. Of Miracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
David Hume's Argument Against Miracles
David Hume's Argument Against Miracles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook David Hume's Argument Against Miracles write by Francis Beckwith. This book was released on 1989. David Hume's Argument Against Miracles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Everlasting Check
The Everlasting Check - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Everlasting Check write by Alexander George. This book was released on 2016-01-05. The Everlasting Check available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alexander George’s lucid interpretation of Hume’s “Of Miracles” provides fresh insights into this provocative text, explaining the concepts and claims involved. He also shows why Hume’s argument fails to engage with committed religious thought and why philosophical argumentation so often proves ineffective in shaking people’s deeply held beliefs.
