Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion : A Philosophical Appraisal (Paperback)

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