Hume, Holism, and Miracles /
David Johnson seeks to overthrow one of the widely accepted tenets of Anglo-American philosophy-that of the success of the Humean case against the rational credibility of reports of miracles. In a manner unattempted in any other single work, he meticulously examines all the main variants of Humean r...
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Ithaca, NY :
Cornell University Press,
[2018]
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Table des matières:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Promissory Note
- 2. 'Miracle', 'Violation', 'Law of Nature'
- 3. Hume's Own Argument
- 4. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by J.L. Mackie
- 5. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by John Stuart Mill
- 6. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by Antony Flew
- 7. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by Jordan Howard Sobel
- 8. Repetitions
- 9. Hume's Teasing Ambiguity
- Closing Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index