
Hume's Abject Failure
The Argument Against Miracles
John Earman(Author)
Oxford University Press Inc
Published on 7. December 2000
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-19-512737-9 (ISBN)
Description
By situating Hume's famous work "Of Miracles" (which notoriously argues against the possiblity of miracles) in the context of the 18th century debate on miracles, Earman shows that Hume's argument is largely unoriginal, and largely without merit where it is original. On the positive side, he shows how progress can be made on the issues, so provocatively posed in Hume's essay, about the ability of eyewitness testimony to establish the credibility of marvelous and miraculous events. Earman's work is simultaneously a contribution to the history of ideas, the philosophy of religion, and to probability and induction.
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Language
English
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New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
533 gr
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978-0-19-512737-9 (9780195127379)
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Professor of the History and Philosophy of ScienceProfessor of the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh