David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability

You can find my book, David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability, a defense of the argument against believing in miracles, here. It is available in hardback, paperback and ebook.

Listed as one of the editor’s three choices for books on the history of mathematics in The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020, ed. Mircea Pitici (Princeton University Press).

Leland Harper reviewed my book in the journal Religious Studies (2020) doi:10.1017/S0034412520000335:

• "very straightforward & convincing argument"

• "points out the crucial flaws in each [Hume critic's] arguments"

• "refreshingly concise style"

• "pulls no punches"

• "excellent addition to the bookshelves of Hume scholars, epistemologists &...philosophers of religion"

John Loftus added a nine-page appendix on my book to his anthology, The Case Against Miracles (Hypatia Press, 2019), in which he gives a very favorable summary of my argument, calling it “a major defense of Hume on miracles.”

My original paper on this topic published in Hume Studies, “Of Miracles and Evidential Probability: Hume’s ‘Abject Failure’ Vindicated,” is here.

Coming soon (I hope): “Hume on Contrary Religions: Why It is Irrational to Believe that your Religious Beliefs are True.”