TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,David
TI  - Hume, Holism, and Miracles
T2  - Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
SN  - 9781501731303
AV  - B1499.M5 J64 1999
U1  - 212 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Miracles
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Religious Studies
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Religious
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Promissory Note --; 2. 'Miracle', 'Violation', 'Law of Nature' --; 3. Hume's Own Argument --; 4. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by J. L. Mackie --; 5. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by John Stuart Mill --; 6. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by Antony Flew --; 7. Hume's Argument as Reconstructed by Jordan Howard Sobel --; 8. Repetitions --; 9. Hume's Teasing Ambiguity --; Closing Remarks --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - David Johnson seeks to overthrow one of the widely accepted tenets of Anglo-American philosophy—that of the success of the Humean case against the rational credibility of reports of miracles. In a manner unattempted in any other single work, he meticulously examines all the main variants of Humean reasoning on the topic of miracles: Hume's own argument and its reconstructions by John Stuart Mill, J. L. Mackie, Antony Flew, Jordan Howard Sobel, and others.Hume's view, set forth in his essay "Of Miracles," has been widely thought to be correct. Johnson reviews Hume's thesis with clarity and elegance and considers the arguments of some of the most prominent defenders of Hume's case against miracles. According to Johnson, the Humean argument on this topic is entirely without merit, its purported cogency being simply a philosophical myth
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