Scepticism and Belief in Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
In the pages that follow, an attempt is made to examine those sections of the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion which deal with the Argument from Design - the argument which purports to prove that certain observed similarities between the design of the world and machines of human contrivance cou...
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Philosophic Background to Hume’s Dialogues
- Hume’s Views on Reasoning
- Scepticism
- Natural Beliefs
- 2. Introduction and Part I of Hume’s Dialogues
- I: Preliminary Discussion: Can There Be a Natural Theology?
- 3. Hume’s Dialogues: Part II
- The Argument from Design is Presented
- The Two Versions of the Argument from Design
- Philo’s Initial Criticisms of the Argument from Design
- 4. Hume’s Dialogues: Part III
- Cleanthes’ Illustrative Analogies
- The Articulate Voice Illustration
- The Living Vegetable Library Illustration
- 5. Hume’s Dialogues: Part IV
- The First ‘Inconvenience’ of Anthropomorphism
- 6. Hume’s Dialogues: Part V
- More ‘Inconveniences’ of Cleanthes’ Anthropomorphism
- 7. Hume’s Dialogues: Parts VI–VIII
- Competing Cosmogonies
- 8. Hume’s Dialogues: Part XII
- Mitigated Scepticism and Natural Theology
- The General Thesis Restated
- Philo’s Mitigated Scepticism
- Correcting the ‘Undistinguished’ Pyrrhonian Doubts through ‘Common Sense’
- Correcting the ‘Undistinguished’ Pyrrhonian Doubts through ‘Reflection’