Hume's Abject Failure

This vital study offers a new interpretation of Hume''s famous "Of Miracles," which notoriously argues against the possibility of miracles. By situating Hume''s popular argument in the context of the eighteenth-century debate on miracles, Earman shows Hume''s argument to be largely unoriginal and chiefly without merit where it is original. Yet Earman constructively conceives how progress can be ma...