1st Edition
Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion A Philosophical Appraisal
Introduction Kenneth Williford
Part 1: Two Overtures to Raillery
1. Hume’s Dialogues: Cautious, Artful and Funny Simon Blackburn
2. Recipes or, Philosophy for Fun Clark Glymour
Part 2: Theistic "Proofs"
3. A Bayesian Double Negative: A Critique of Hume’s Treatment of the Design Argument in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion and A Critique of the Design Argument Itself Elliott Sober
4. Cleanthes’ Challenge and the ‘Irregular’ Argument from Design Todd Ryan
5. Hume, Locke, and the Demonstrability of God’s Existence Annemarie Butler
Part 3: Matters of Interpretation
6. Hume’s ‘Artful’ Masterpiece: The Dialogues and the Concealed Case for Atheism Andrew Pyle
7. Not Hoist with his own Petard: Hume’s Dance with Skepticism in Dialogues, Part I Evan Fales
8. Demea’s Departure Revisited Lorne Falkenstein
9. Hume’s Palimpsest: The Four Endings of the Dialogues Emilio Mazza and Gianluca Mori
Part 4: Religion, Passion, and the Limits of Reason
10. Natural Religion’s "Dangerous Consequences" David O’Connor
11. Reason and Passion in Hume’s Philosophy of Religion John P. Wright
12. Philo’s Two Designers and Humean Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone Charles Nussbaum
Part 5: Epicurus and Darwin, Strato and Spinoza
13. Hume, Darwin, and the "Epicurean Hypothesis" John Reiss
14. Philo’s Trojan Horse: The World Soul Hypothesis and the Necessitarianism Inside Peter LeGrant
15. Philo, Strato, and Spinoza Kenneth Williford.
Index
Biography
Kenneth Williford is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at The University of Texas at Arlington, USA. He works primarily in Philosophy of Mind, Phenomenology, and the History of Modern Philosophy.
