LEADER 02499nam 2200589 a 450 001 9910451955903321 005 20210114094701.0 010 $a1-280-53038-3 010 $a9786610530380 010 $a0-19-802931-4 010 $a1-4294-0472-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000465759 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24085306 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000087415 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11108195 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087415 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10053605 035 $a(PQKB)10628425 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3052251 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000465759 100 $a20000516d2000 fy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aHume's abject failure$b[electronic resource] $ethe argument against miracles /$fJohn Earman 210 $aNew York ;$aOxford $cOxford University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (256p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-19-512737-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aDivided into two parts, part one contains a critique of Hume's argument against miricles, and part two consists of primary source material that provides the context for understanding Hume's contribution to the miracles debate. 330 $bBy 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. 606 $aMiracles 606 $aMiracles 606 $aPhilosophy & Religion$2HILCC 606 $aPhilosophy$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books.$2lcsh 615 0$aMiracles. 615 0$aMiracles 615 7$aPhilosophy & Religion 615 7$aPhilosophy 676 $a212 700 $aEarman$b John$052075 801 0$bStDuBDS 801 1$bStDuBDS 801 2$bUkPrAHLS 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451955903321 996 $aHume's abject failure$91896254 997 $aUNINA