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1Hume and Proofs for the Existence of GodIn Paul Russell (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of David Hume, Oxford University Press. 2016.This chapter is about Hume’s critiques of the cosmological, ontological, and design arguments for the existence of God, as proposed by Samuel Clarke and other Newtonian theologians. Clarke regarded the cosmological argument as essential to prove the uniqueness, eternity, infinity, and omnipresence of God and the design argument as essential to prove the wisdom and foresight of God. The criticisms Hume makes all depend on his empiricist theory of ideas and his revolutionary theories of causation …Read more
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8Hume on the Nature and Existence of GodIn Elizabeth S. Radcliffe (ed.), A Companion to Hume, Blackwell. 2008.This chapter contains section titled: Natural Religion in EHU The Critique of the Design Argument in DNR The Problem of Evil Part 12 and the Interpretation of DNR Conclusion References Further Reading.
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88Naturalism and ScepticismPhilosophy 65 (254). 1990.In this paper we argue that a dominant view of Humean naturalism involves a fundamental misconception of Hume's naturalist project. We shall show that the naturalist project as Hume conceives it is philosophically much more interesting than the form of naturalism commonly attributed to him. We shall also argue, however, that Hume's commitment to principles of empiricist epistemology prevented him from bringing his naturalist project to a satisfactory conclusion. Finally, we shall suggest that Wi…Read more
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1The Logic of Questions and Answers by N. D. Belnap and T. B. Steel (review)Mind 88 (350): 297-299. 1979.
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43Spectres of False Divinity – Hume's Moral Atheism (review)British Journal for the History of Philosophy 20 (1). 2012.British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Volume 20, Issue 1, Page 198-204, January 2012
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74Design flawsThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 (54): 80-84. 2011.Popular religions are practical; they are used as guides to living. But philosophical religion has no implications for how we should live. Hume thought that philosophical theism and popular monotheism cannot be coherently united. Yet incoherent unification is precisely what has happened in our own culture.
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3Hume on causationIn David Fate Norton & Jacqueline Taylor (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Hume, Cambridge University Press. 1993.
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78Transcendental empiricism? : Deleuze's reading of HumeIn Marina Frasca-Spada & P. J. E. Kail (eds.), Impressions of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2005.This chapter is about how Deleuze read Hume and how that reading contributed to his idea of a transcendental empiricism. In particular it discusses, first, Deleuze's engagement with Hume's empiricism, which he understands to be founded on a thesis of the externality of relations; and, second, what Deleuze calls the problem of subjectivity, which is what he takes Hume's account of human nature to concern. The chapter provides some support for Deleuze's innovative readings and concludes with remar…Read more
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14Design flawsThe Philosophers' Magazine 54 80-84. 2011.Popular religions are practical; they are used as guides to living. But philosophical religion has no implications for how we should live. Hume thought that philosophical theism and popular monotheism cannot be coherently united. Yet incoherent unification is precisely what has happened in our own culture.
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3Hume on superstitionIn D. Z. Phillips & Timothy Tessin (eds.), Religion and Hume's Legacy, St. Martin's Press, Scholarly and Reference Division. pp. 153--70. 1999.
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38Deleuze’s Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish EnlightenmentHume Studies 35 (1-2): 246-250. 2009.
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1Sceptical doubts concerning Hume's causal realismIn Rupert J. Read & Kenneth A. Richman (eds.), The New Hume Debate, Routledge. pp. 122--37. 2000.
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31Belief and Instinct in Hume's First EnquiryIn Peter Millican (ed.), Reading Hume on Human Understanding: Essays on the First Enquiry, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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73The Relation between Literary Form and Philosophical Argument in Hume’s Dialogues concerning Natural ReligionHume Studies 27 (2): 227-246. 2001.Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Hume Studies, published by and copyright Hume Society.
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139Hume and causal power: The influences of Malebranche and NewtonBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (1). 1997.No abstract
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