书名: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles
作者: John Earman (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (November 23, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0195127382
ISBN-13: 978-0195127386
Book 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.
Review
"Unlike so many who have gone before, Earman does not merely intend to expose Hume's fallacies. His aim is to sketch an epistemology that allows for both the possibility of miracles and a healthy skepticism toward miracle claims--twin goals that many theists also embrace. As a whole, this is a very good book." -- Philosophia Christi
"[the] argument itself is very clear, very cogent, and very apposite to present debates." -- Mind
About the Author
John Earman is at University of Pittsburgh.
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作者: John Earman (Author)
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA (November 23, 2000)
语言: English
ISBN-10: 0195127382
ISBN-13: 978-0195127386
Book 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.
Review
"Unlike so many who have gone before, Earman does not merely intend to expose Hume's fallacies. His aim is to sketch an epistemology that allows for both the possibility of miracles and a healthy skepticism toward miracle claims--twin goals that many theists also embrace. As a whole, this is a very good book." -- Philosophia Christi
"[the] argument itself is very clear, very cogent, and very apposite to present debates." -- Mind
About the Author
John Earman is at University of Pittsburgh.
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