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Title: Hume's Abject Failure: The Argument Against Miracles by John Earman ISBN: 0-19-512738-2 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)
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Summary: A Very Badly Needed Book
Comment: Introductory philosophy courses in college or university invariably include Hume's argument against miracles in the philosophy of religion unit to convince students that one cannot use evidence of miracles (such as the resurrection of Christ) to argue for metaphysical truths. Of course, Hume's argument SHOULD be included in the course--but in the LOGIC section as an archetypal piece of bad reasoning. Finally, a professional philosopher--who is by no means a Christian believer--has done a thoroughgoing scholarly critique of Hume's argument, showing beyond all question that the argument is perfectly circular: Hume, with a pre-Einsteinian, 18th century mindset, assumes that "uniform experience" exists against miracles and concludes--surprise, surprise--that no evidence can ever be effectively marshalled to prove that a miracle has really occurred. This book should be read by every naive philosophical rationalist. It will open epistemological doors to a new appreciation of the potential of miracle arguments as a prime support to claims for a genuine, historical incarnation.
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Title: Philosophy of Religion: A Reader and Guide by William Lane Craig, Michael Murray, J. P. Moreland ISBN: 0813531217 Publisher: Rutgers University Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Rationality of Theism by Paul K. Moser, Paul Copan ISBN: 0415263328 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig ISBN: 0830826947 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: In Defense of Miracles: A Comprehensive Case for God's Actions in History by R. Douglas Geivett, Gary R. Habermas, R. Douglas Gievett ISBN: 0830815287 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Freedom Evolves by Daniel C. Dennett ISBN: 0670031860 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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