Hume on Laws and Miracles

被引：3

作者：

Rockwood, Nathan ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Brigham Young Univ, Provo, UT 84602 USA

来源：

AMERICAN CATHOLIC PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY | 2018年 / 92卷 / 04期

关键词：

D O I：

10.5840/acpq2018829162

中图分类号：

B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ;

摘要：

Hume famously argues that our past experience of the laws of nature provide us with decisive reason to believe that any testimony of a miracle is false. In this paper, I argue that the laws of nature, as such, give us no reason at all to believe that the testimony of a miracle is false. I first argue that Hume's proof is unsuccessful if we assume the Humean view of laws, and then I argue that Hume's proof is unsuccessful even if we assume a governing view of laws. I conclude that regardless of which kind of view we adopt, the fact that a miracle is a violation of the laws of nature does not give us any reason to believe it did not happen.

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页码：563 / 581

页数：19