Skeptical Baconianism
David Hume, Scientific Christianity, and the Controversy Surrounding Miracles
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 7202835 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Alexander W Morales (Vanderbilt University, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2025 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 362-384 |
| Data de publicação | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Journal for the History of Rhetoric (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 2687-8003 • E-ISSN: 2687-8011 |
| Editora | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.5325/jhistrhetoric.27.3.0362 |
| OpenAlex | W4407350830 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referências citadas | 46 |
This article shows how David Hume’s notable essay “Of Miracles” responds to the exigency of scientific Christianity by articulating a rationale for divorcing the concerns of English empiricism and Protestantism while also attempting to liberate secular inquiry from religious interference. What it calls skeptical Baconianism denotes how Hume altered Francis Bacon’s cultural grammar to reveal the epistemological incommensurability between science and religion and appeal to the strong anti-Catholic and proscientific sentiments of British culture by way of equivocation. In so doing, it shows how Hume attacks the epistemological foundations of scientific Christianity while also exploiting the theological prejudices of English Protestants in the eighteenth century
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Two Kinds of Tranquility
Pyrrhonism in Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary Philosophy
Enlightenment Rhetoric Reconsidered
Interpreting Hume on miracles
Socinians, John Toland, and the Anglican Rationalists
The Humed Serpent
And Knowledge Shall Be Increased”
Testimony in seventeenth-century English natural philosophy
Scientific experiment and legal expertise
The scientific role
The rise and decline of france as a scientific centre
Responses to Hume on Religion by Anglicans and Dissenters
The Anglican Apocalypse in Restoration England
Subscription, the Scottish Enlightenment and the Moderate Interpretation of History
The Dogma of Transubstantiation in the Middle Ages
The Doctrine of Transubstantiation and the English Protestant Dispossession of Demons
The persistence of tradition in grammar
Scientific revolution and the grammar of culture
Skepticism as ethos
The Culture of Science and the Rhetoric of Scientism
The rhetorical career of Thomas Woolston
Hume on Miracles
The Restoration
"Francis Bacon's Valerius Terminus and the Voyage to the "Great Instauration
The Religion of David Hume
"Rational Religion" in Restoration England
Bacon's Man of Science
Popery and Protestantism, Civil and Religious Liberty
Miracles, Early Modern Science, and Rational Religion
Baconianism and the Bible in the Disciples of Christ
| Velocidade de citação | historical |
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| Altamente citado | Não |