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Author:   Kenneth Williford (University of Texas at Arlington, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
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9781032594286

ISBN 10:   1032594284
Pages:   428
Publication Date:   30 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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