TY  - BOOK
AU  - Earman,John
TI  - Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles
SN  - 9780198029311
AV  - B1499.M5 -- E37 2000eb 
U1  - 212 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press, Incorporated
KW  - Miracles
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART I: HUME ON MIRACLES -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Hume's Religious Orientation -- 3. The Origins of Hume's Essay -- 4. The Puzzles of Hume's Definitions of ''Miracle'' -- 5. Conceptions of Miracles -- 6. What a Miracle Is for Hume -- 7. The Eighteenth-Century Debate on Miracles -- 8. The Structure of Hume's Essay -- 9. Hume's Straight Rule of Induction and His ''Proof '' against Miracles -- 10. Hume, Bayes, and Price -- 11. Bayes and Bayesianism -- 12. The Bayes-Price Rejection of Hume's Straight Rule -- 13. Hume's Stultification of Scientific Inquiry -- 14. The Indian Prince -- 15. Hume's Maxim -- 16. What Is Hume's Thesis? -- 17. Hume's Diminution Principle -- 18. Multiple Witnessing -- 19. More Multiple Witnessing -- 20. What Is Right about Hume's Position -- 21. Fall Back Positions for Hume -- 22. Probabilifying Religious Doctrines -- 23. Hume's Contrary Miracles Argument -- 24. Conclusion -- Appendix on Probability -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Additional Bibliography -- PART II: THE DOCUMENTS -- John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV -- Chapter 15, ''Of Probability'' -- Chapter 16, ''Of the Degrees of Assent'' -- Benedict De Spinoza, A Theologico-Political Treatise Chapter 6, ''Of Miracles'' -- John Locke, ''A Discourse of Miracles'' -- Samuel Clarke, ''A Discourse Concerning the Unalterable Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelations'' -- Thomas Sherlcok, The Tryal of the Witnesses of the Resurrection of Jesus -- Peter Annet, The Resurrection of Jesus Considered: In Answer to the Tryal of the Witnesses -- David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Section 10, ''Of Miracles'' -- Richard Price, Four Dissertations Dissertation IV, ''On the Importance of Christianity and the Nature of Historical Evidence, and Miracles''; George Campbell, A Dissertation on Miracles -- Anonymous (George Hooper?), ''A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony'' -- Pierre Simon Laplace, A Philosophical Essay on Probability Chapter 11, ''Concerning the Probabilities of Testimonies'' -- Charles Babbage, Ninth Bridgewater Treatise Chapter 10, ''On Hume's Argument against Miracles'' -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W
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