A Defense of Hume on Miracles

by Robert J. Fogelin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691122431
• ISBN13: 9780691122434
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 101 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.7" x 8.5"