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Since 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.

Miracles. --- Hume, David, --- Mirakels --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Miracles --- Hume, David --- Hume, David, - 1711-1776.

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Miracles --- Early works to 1800 --- -God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- -Early works to 1800 --- Miracles - Early works to 1800

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Miracles --- History of doctrines --- 231.73 --- Mirakel als geloofsargument. Thaumaturgie.--(fenomeen in het algemeen) --- 231.73 Mirakel als geloofsargument. Thaumaturgie.--(fenomeen in het algemeen) --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- 19th century --- 20th century --- Miracles - History of doctrines - 19th century. --- Miracles - History of doctrines - 20th century. --- Miracles - History of doctrines - 19th century --- Miracles - History of doctrines - 20th century

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"The miracle stories of the founders and saints of the major world religions have much in common. Written by international experts, this Companion provides an authoritative and comparative study of miracles in not only Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism, but also, indigenous religions. The authors promote a discussion of the problems of miracles in our largely secular culture, and of the value of miracles in religious belief. The miracles of Jesus are also contextualized through chapters on the Hebrew Bible, classical culture to the Romans, Second Temple and early rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues"--

Miracles --- History --- Histoire --- 231.731 --- Miracles. --- God --- Marvelous, The --- Miracle workers --- Spiritual healing --- Supernatural --- Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- Religion --- General --- 231.731 Wonderen. Bovennatuurlijke feiten --- General. --- Christian spirituality --- Comparative religion --- founders of the world's major religions --- saints --- Hinduism --- Buddhism --- Christianity --- Judaism --- miracles --- secularism --- culture --- religious belief --- Jesus --- the Hebrew Bible --- Second Temple --- early rabbinic Judaism --- early Christianity --- philosophy --- medicine --- history

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82-3 --- 82-3 Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Proza. Fictie. Narratologie --- Réalisme magique (Littérature) --- Fiction --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Magical realism (Literature) --- Fantasy fiction --- Surrealism --- Magic in literature --- Marvelous, The, in literature --- Realism in literature --- History and criticism --- Magic realism (Literature). --- Roman --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- 82-3 Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction. Prose narrative --- Fiction - 20th century̨ - History and criticism