Yann SchmittCorresponding author

Hume on Miracles
The Issue of Question-begging

Article
17/1 - Spring 2012, pages 49-71
Date of online publication: 09 August 2015
Date of publication: 30 June 2012

Abstract

Hume's chapter 'of miracles' has been widely discussed and one issue is that Hume seems to beg the question. Hume has a strong but implicit naturalist bias when he argues against the existence of a reliable testimony of miracle. In this article, I explain that Hume begs the question despite what he says on the possibility of an occurrence of a miracle. The main point is that he never describes a violation of laws of nature that could not be explained by scientific theories

Cite this article

Schmitt, Yann. “Hume on Miracles: The Issue of Question-begging.” Forum Philosophicum 17, no. 1 (2012): 49–71. doi:10.35765/forphil.2012.1701.03.