Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction; D.Z.Phillips PART ONE: HUME'S EPISTEMOLOGICAL AND MORAL CRITIQUE Playing Hume's Hand; S.Blackburn Morality and Religion: Towards Meeting Hume's Challenge; W.H.Brenner Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips PART TWO: HUME'S TRUE RELIGION Hume's Mitigated Scepticism: Some Implications for Religious Belief; M.J.Ferreira Is there anything Religious about Philo's True Religion ?; Van A.Harvey Is Hume's True Religion a Religious Belief?; D.Z.Phillips Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips PART THREE: HUME ON MIRACLES Hume and the Miracles; R.W.Beardsmore Beardsmore on Hume on Miracles; S.T.Davis Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips PART FOUR: HUME ON SUPERSTITION Hume on Superstition; M.Bell Passion and Artifice in Hume's Account of Superstition; J.L.MacIntyre Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips PART FIVE: PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AFTER HUME Can Religion Be Rational?; A.Flew Overcoming Hume on His Own Terms; N.Murphy Religion After Hume: Tightrope Walking in An Age of Enlightenment; B.R.Tilghman Voices in Discussion; D.Z.Phillips PART SIX: HUME IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT Hume on Context, Sentiment and Testimony in Religion; P.Jones Index

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D.Z. PHILLIPS is Danforth Professor of the Philosophy of Religion at Claremont Graduate University and Rush Rhees Research Professor, University of Wales, Swansea. His publications include the Concept of Prayer; Death and Immortality ; and Faith and Philosophical Inquiry . TIMOTHY TESSIN was lecturer in philosophy, University of Wales, Swansea. He has published articles in Philosophical Investigations and is co-editor of this series, Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion.