LEADER 03635nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910784916303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-66571-5 010 $a9786612665714 010 $a1-4008-2577-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825776 035 $a(CKB)2670000000034889 035 $a(EBL)616672 035 $a(OCoLC)650305519 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000415567 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11306682 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415567 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10410718 035 $a(PQKB)10432955 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36281 035 $a(DE-B1597)446334 035 $a(OCoLC)979834709 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825776 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL616672 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10400787 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL266571 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC616672 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000034889 100 $a20041108e20052003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA defense of Hume on miracles$b[electronic resource] /$fRobert J. Fogelin 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. ;$aWoodstock, Oxfordshire $cPrinceton University Press$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (116 p.) 225 1 $aPrinceton monographs in philosophy 300 $aOriginally published: 2003. 311 $a0-691-11430-7 311 $a0-691-12243-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 The Structure of Hume's Argument -- $t2 Two Recent Critics -- $t3 The Place of "Of Miracles" in Hume's Philosophy -- $tAppendix 1. Hume's Curious Relationship to Tillotson -- $tAppendix 2. "Of Miracles" -- $tNotes -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aSince its publication in the mid-eighteenth century, Hume's discussion of miracles has been the target of severe and often ill-tempered attacks. In this book, one of our leading historians of philosophy offers a systematic response to these attacks. Arguing that these criticisms have--from the very start--rested on misreadings, Robert Fogelin begins by providing a narrative of the way Hume's argument actually unfolds. What Hume's critics (and even some of his defenders) have failed to see is that Hume's primary argument depends on fixing the appropriate standards of evaluating testimony presented on behalf of a miracle. Given the definition of a miracle, Hume quite reasonably argues that the standards for evaluating such testimony must be extremely high. Hume then argues that, as a matter of fact, no testimony on behalf of a religious miracle has even come close to meeting the appropriate standards for acceptance. Fogelin illustrates that Hume's critics have consistently misunderstood the structure of this argument--and have saddled Hume with perfectly awful arguments not found in the text. He responds first to some early critics of Hume's argument and then to two recent critics, David Johnson and John Earman. Fogelin's goal, however, is not to "bash the bashers," but rather to show that Hume's treatment of miracles has a coherence, depth, and power that makes it still the best work on the subject. 410 0$aPrinceton monographs in philosophy. 606 $aMiracles 615 0$aMiracles. 676 $a212 686 $a08.24$2bcl 700 $aFogelin$b Robert J$0547094 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910784916303321 996 $aA defense of Hume on miracles$93701620 997 $aUNINA