Hume's Abject Failure

The Argument Against Miracles

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, History, Criticism, & Surveys
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Author: John Earman ISBN: 9780199880850
Publisher: Oxford University Press Publication: November 23, 2000
Imprint: Oxford University Press Language: English
Author: John Earman
ISBN: 9780199880850
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication: November 23, 2000
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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