Hume's Abject Failure

The Argument Against Miracles

By: John Earman

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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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"Unlike so many who have gone before, Earman does not merely intend to expose Hume's fallacies. His aim is to sketch an epistemology that allows for both the possibility of miracles and a healthy skepticism toward miracle claims--twin goals that many theists also embrace. As a whole, this is a very good book."--Philosophia Christi "[the] argument itself is very clear, very cogent, and very apposite to present debates."--Mind

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Preface	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. xi
Hume on Miracles	p. 1
Hume's Religious Orientation	p. 4
The Origins of Hume's Essay	p. 6
The Puzzles of Hume's Definitions of Miracles""""""""	p. 8
Conceptions of Miracles	p. 9
What a Miracle is for Hume	p. 12
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 14
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 20
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 22
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 24
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 26
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 29
The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles	p. 30
The Indian Prince	p. 33
Hume's Maxim	p. 38
Hume's Maxim	p. 43
Hume's Diminution Principle	p. 49
Multiple Witnessing	p. 53
Multiple Witnessing	p. 56
Multiple Witnessing	p. 59
Multiple Witnessing	p. 61
Probabilifying Religious Doctrines	p. 65
Hume's Contrary Miracles Argument	p. 67
Hume's Contrary Miracles Argument	p. 70
Appendix: on Probability	p. 75
Notes	p. 77
Works Cited	p. 87
Additional Bibliography	p. 93
The Documents	p. 95
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 107
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 114
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 120
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 125
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 132
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 140
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 153
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 157
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 172
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 176
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 193
Benedict De Spinoza, a Theologico-Political Treatise (1670), Chapter 6	p. 194
Charles Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise (2d Ed. 1838), Chapter 10, """"On Hume's Argument Against Miracles""""	p. 203
Index	p. 213
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