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| Named Person: | David Hume; David Hume; David Hume |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Earman |
| ISBN: | 0195127374 9780195127379 0195127382 9780195127386 |
| OCLC Number: | 42619596 |
| Description: | xi, 217 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Responsibility: | John Earman. |
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