Hume on God by Timothy S Yoder
David Hume, one of the most influential philosophers to have written in the English language, is widely known as a skeptic and an empiricist. He is famous for raising questions about the existence of things for which there is insufficient empirical evidence, such as souls, the self, miracles, and, perhaps most importantly, God. Despite this reputation, however, Hume's works contain frequent references to a deity, and one searches in vain to find a positive assertion of atheism. This book proposes a different reading of Hume on God, in which Hume is seen as proposing a 'genuine theism'. Yoder investigates Hume's use of irony and his relationship with the Deists of his era and offers a thorough re-examination of Hume's writings on religion. Yoder concludes that, despite Hume's criticisms of the church, religiously-based ethics and the belief in miracles, he stops well short of a rejection of the existence of God. Always a creative thinker, Hume carves out a unique conception of the divine being.-
Wittgenstein and Gadamer
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The Coherence of Hobbes's Leviathan
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The Early Wittgenstein on Religion
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Wittgenstein's Religious Point of View
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Boyle on Fire
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F. P. Ramsey
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Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics
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Subjectivity After Wittgenstein
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Berkeley and Irish Philosophy
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Wittgenstein at His Word
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Doing Austin Justice
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Thomas Reid's Ethics
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The Cultural Politics of Analytic Philosophy
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Hobbes and the Making of Modern Political Thought
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The Philosophy of Herbert Spencer
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Wittgenstein and the Theory of Perception
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Wittgenstein on Rules and Nature
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Iris Murdoch's Ethics
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Idealist Political Philosophy
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Wittgenstein's Form of Life
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Wittgenstein and Value
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Francis Bacon and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
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John Stuart Mill's Political Philosophy
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Berkeley's Philosophy of Spirit
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Hume's Social Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell, Language and Linguistic Theory
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Russell's Theory of Perception
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Popper, Objectivity and the Growth of Knowledge
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David Hume and the Problem of Other Minds
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Thomas Hobbes and the Politics of Natural Philosophy
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John Locke and Personal Identity
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Rethinking Mill's Ethics
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Hume's Theory of Causation
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Russell and Wittgenstein on the Nature of Judgement
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Wittgenstein and Ethical Inquiry
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Bertrand Russell's Ethics
Yoder argues that Hume is not a complete skeptic regarding religion, but instead affirms a true religion of 'genuine theism in continuity with his defense of mitigated skepticismYoder's study is especially valuable for his response to the tendency to dismiss certain passages in Hume's writings as ironic. Instead, Yoder develops a set of hermeneutical principles for deciding when Hume is using irony, and concludes that Hume's positive statements concerning the existence of a deity are not ironic. Yoder's interpretation of Hume's writings on religion will remain an important contribution to the literature. - Dr Claudia Schmidt, Marquette University, USA
Timothy S. Yoder (PhD. Marquette University) is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Philadelphia Biblical University in Langhorne, PA, USA.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781441122834 |
| ISBN 10 | 1441122834 |
| Title | Hume on God |
| Author | Timothy S Yoder |
| Series | Continuum Studies In British Philosophy |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Continuum Publishing Corporation |
| Year published | 2011-12-29 |
| Number of pages | 186 |
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