A defense of Hume on Miracles - FOGELIN, ROBERT J.
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Since its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. Arguing that these criticisms have--from the very start--rested on misreadings, Robert Fogelin begins by providing a narrative of the way Hume's argument actually unfolds. What Hume's critics (and even some of his defenders) have failed to see is that Hume's primary argument depends on fixing the appropriate standards of evaluating testimony presented on behalf of a miracle. Given the definition of a miracle, Hume quite reasonably argues that the standards for evaluating such testimony must be extremely high. Hume then argues that, as a matter of fact, no testimony on behalf of a religious miracle has even come close to meeting the appropriate standards for acceptance. Fogelin illustrates that Hume's critics have consistently misunderstood the structure of this ar...
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2005Uitgever: Princeton University Press120 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0691122431ISBN-13: 9780691122434Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's brown cloth spine, cream paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, pictorial dustjacket, 8vo: xvi, 102pp.Very fine copy - as new. Princeton-Oxford, Princeton University Press. z.j. [Auteur: FOGELIN, ROBERT J.] [Titel: A defense of Hume on Miracles]
