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Hume's Abject Failure The Argument Against Miracles

By John Earman

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2000
ISBN
0195127382, 9780195127386
LCC
B1499.M5 E37 2000
Open Library ID
OL48206M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1895284 bytes)
Pages
193\193
Time added
2010-02-18 13:16:04

Description

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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