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Holland, Aaron Thomas.

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Natural belief and Hume's philosophy of religion (David Hume).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Natural belief and Hume's philosophy of religion (David Hume)./
Author:	Holland, Aaron Thomas.
Description:	144 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1798.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174397
ISBN:	9780542120251

Natural belief and Hume's philosophy of religion (David Hume).
Holland, Aaron Thomas.

Natural belief and Hume's philosophy of religion (David Hume). - 144 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-05, Section: A, page: 1798.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Utah, 2005.

In this dissertation I critique a novel reading of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. According to this novel interpretation, Hume regards belief in an intelligent designer as a natural belief, a belief that all humans irresistibly hold, and accordingly that Hume himself believed in the existence of a deity.

ISBN: 9780542120251Subjects--Topical Terms:

516511
Philosophy.

Natural belief and Hume's philosophy of religion (David Hume).
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520 $a In this dissertation I critique a novel reading of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. According to this novel interpretation, Hume regards belief in an intelligent designer as a natural belief, a belief that all humans irresistibly hold, and accordingly that Hume himself believed in the existence of a deity.
520 $a I present and criticize two species of attempts to establish a natural belief doctrine in Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion. The accounts include Beryl Logan's process approach (Chapter 3 and Chapter 5), Stanley Tweyman's criteria approach (Chapter 3 and Chapter 7), and William Lad Sessions' natural theist interpretation that supports both approaches (Chapter 6 and Chapter 7). I argue that each account fails to adequately address textual evidence from Hume's other writings and does not cohere with the Dialogues as a whole, as well as with Hume's other writings on religion.
520 $a I conclude that the natural belief reading of Hume's Dialogues is implausible, that it is unlikely that Hume himself ever espoused such a position. While belief in an intelligent designer might in fact be a natural belief, the historical question as to whether or not Hume held such a view seems to be best answered in the negative. Through my criticisms of the natural belief proponents, a skeptic or agnostic interpretation of Hume will emerge indirectly, though I defend such a position hesitantly for Hume seems to have concealed his intentions in writing the Dialogues. In the end I offer suggestions for how Hume understood the instinctual, but avoidable tendency to ascribe intelligent design to order in the world.
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