The centrepiece of Earman‟s provocatively titled book Hume’s Abject Failure: The Argument against Miracles (OUP, 2000) is a probabilistic interpretation of Hume‟s famous „maxim‟ concerning the credibility of miracle reports, followed by an aggressive critique of the maxim when thus interpreted. He argues that the first part of this maxim, once its obscurity is removed, is simply trivial, while ...

DYING AND DEATH IN POLISH LANGUAGE ORTHODOX PRINTED TEXTS AUTHORED BY THE MEMBERS OF KIYV-MOHYLA ACADEMY This article deals with the Polish lexis in semantic field of and conceptualizations death as represented Orthodox hagiographies miracula collections. The analysis includes following three text collections: H. Denisowicz’s Parergon cudów świętych [Parergon Miracles Saints] (1638), A. Kalnofo...

The paper is devoted to the representation of Protestants in stories (legends and miracles) about miraculous images Our Lady that come from territories (former) Grand Duchy Lithuania: involving those currently incorporated Belarus, Lithuania, Poland Ukraine. It considers first both locals who converted Protestantism Orthodoxy or Catholicism 16th–17th century Lutheran Swedish invaders 17th–18th ...

Both Leibniz and Kant were heirs of such a tradition. But both were also explanatory rationalists about the empirical world: more committed than your average philosopher to its thoroughgoing intelligibility. (Leibniz was also an explanatory rationalist about the nonempirical, fundamental world; on that issue, given his commitments to freedom and noumenal ignorance, Kant famously demurred.) Thes...