Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles

by John Earman

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This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume's famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume's popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume's argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be made on the issues that Hume's essay so provocatively posed...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0195127382

ISBN13:9780195127386

Release Date:November 2000

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:232 Pages

Weight:1.05 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Philosophy Religion Religion & Spirituality

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