What thesis is Hume trying to establish in his essay “On Miracles” (Section 10 of the Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding) and does he succeed? John Earman’s answer to the latter question is clearly conveyed by the title of his new book. Earman uses a Bayesian representation of the problem to make his case. For Earman, this mode of analysis is both perspicuous and nonanachronistic, in that p...

“Living” matter distinguishes itself from “ordinary” by its capacity to grow, reproduce or multiply, and most of all autonomous functional activity, baptised “intelligence”, sense environment adapt survive. This last feature truly is one the miracles life. Find out more in Chapter 3 EPS Grand Challenges.

Jewish tradition understands a miracle as a wonder that manifests God’s beneficent power. A miracle (nes in Hebrew) could be supernatural, but it need not be. While God has the ability to act in a manner that goes against the “orders of creation” (sidrei breishit) that He has established, the regularity of this order itself wondrously manifests God’s beneficent power. A central goal of Judaism ...

• There is no sustained growth without low and/or declining barriers to trade. • Sustained rapid growth has almost never missed the poor. While there is a role for targeted poverty-reduction programs, the best hope of the poor remains sustained rapid growth. 1 The author is Jagdish Bhagwati Professor of Indian Political Economy & Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Work on this paper...

All aspects of Jewish life are dealt with: the Jewish population, the community, economic life, family and social life, religious life and morality, literature, the fine arts, the Renaissance in daily life, and the world of science. In the last of these there is a section on medical science and physicians, but it occupies only six pages. However, this book, which appeared first in Hebrew, is an...