Hume, Holism, and Miracles / / David Johnson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Johnson, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (128 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501731303; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501731303
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: David Johnson.

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.