About this title: Humankind has pondered many mysteries, but few more enticing than the existence of a divine creator who is said to have set the universe in motion. Imitating the well-known style of Platonic dialogues, the relentless inquirer and empiricist David Hume assembles a group to discuss the existence of God, his divine nature, his attributes, and the ...
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Description: Good. ISBN: 0140445366. Penguin paperback 1990. 153pp. A sound copy. Pages lightly tanned but clean. Light marking to back cover with a few small indents. No annotation. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Collier-MacMillan
Date Published: 1975
Description: Softback, ex-library, ex-library with usual stamps and markings, in fair to good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Cover scuffed., 1000grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Press
Date Published: 1948
Description: Paperback, 15th printing 1972, slight shelf wear to edges and corners, light tanning to cover and page edges, interior very good. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: William Blackwood and Sons
Date Published: 1907
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. Ships within 24 hours., 350grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Co
Date Published: 1963
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Edited with Introduction by Aiken, H D, 250grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Digireads. com
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781420927047ISBN:1420927043
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Co
Date Published: 1963
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Co
Date Published: 1963
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Edited with Introduction by Aiken, H D, 250grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Co
Date Published: 1963
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Edited with Introduction by Aiken, H D., 250grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Hafner Publishing Co
Date Published: 1963
Description: Softback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in good all round condition. Ships within 24 hours. Edited with Introduction by Aiken, H D., 250grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Filiquarian Publishing
Date Published: 2007
ISBN-13:9781599866390ISBN:1599866390
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co., New York
Date Published: 1959
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by previous owner. 1959 Hafner soft cover. NOT EX LIB! Bright pages, lots of bent corners, notes & underlining. Barely creased spine, moderate edgewear & light cover scuffing. 95 p. The Hafner library of classics. Bibliography: p. xviii. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dodo Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781409969129ISBN:1409969126
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780879755270ISBN:087975527X
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Ex-library copy in protective plastic cover. Card pocket plus normal markings, binding tight. Text is clean, no stains or tears, edges stamped. Cover is clean with moderate wear. Firm, solid copy. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 114 p. Great Books in Philosophy. read more
Edition: Fifteenth Printing
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Hafner Pub. Co., New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Has notes by former owner on eps and only 2 pages, o/w clean, tight. xviii, 95 p. The Hafner library of classics.. Includes bibliography. read more
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1989-03
ISBN-13:9780879755270ISBN:087975527X
Description: Good- Format: Trade Paperback. Year: 1989. Prometheus's Great Books in Philosophy Series. Good Minus. Highlighting. Some underlining. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Binding and covers flexible some, some edge wear, highlights on a few middle pages. Trade paperback (US). Sewn binding. 95 p. Hafner Library of Classics. Audience: General/trade. read more
"This is pretty good. You can see the arguments for intelligent design laid out over a century ago. The language is kinda tough for the contemporary reader (I needed a philosophy class to really digest it), but the ideas are solid."
"It's sort of sad how Hume has already used & debunked (resp.) all arguments in favor of and against religion in this work (and a bit in his other works).. I have yet to encounter an argument used by contemporary "thinkers" in the public debate that is new (if you ignore the fact that some of the details have changed). Organized religion is a bore."
"I read this book for Cornel West's course on Hume & Kant during my last semester at Union Theological Seminary in New York. This and his Treatise of Human Nature are my favorite books by Hume, one of my favorite philosophers.
It struck me today whilst thinking back upon Hume that his critique of necessity in evidentiary cases of causality, the spark that set off Kant's revolution in philosophy, might be a salutory read for those, like Einstein, who've been troubled by developments in microphysics which have shattered some of the last vestiges of apodictic necessity in the physical sciences. What Hume noted was that there is no such thing as a law as regards our understandings of experience. As regards causal relations, the best we can hope for are more, rather than less, likely patterns, strong tendencies which may be relied on. Some, of course, approach the ideal of lawfulness such as the "laws" of Newtonian mechanics, but, as Kant noted, the ideal of perfect lawfulness in nature is something we impose upon it. Such necessity in the physical sciences is but "a regulative ideal of the Vernunft", something aimed at and aspired to, but never obtainable to finite beings like ourselves restricted, as we are, to our finite inductions from experiment and experience. This being acknowledged, the probability vectors of electrons, indeterminacy and the uncertainty principle, are not so hard to adjust to after all."
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