On “experimental theism” in David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion
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experimental theism, empirical theism, David Hume’s Dialogues Concerning Natural ReligionAbstract
In this article I shall attempt to constrain David Hume’s profound attack on “experimental theism” (famously advocated in the Dialogues by Cleanthes), by a) making a distinction between “experimental realism”, which, as I shall argue, can be equated with Cleanthes’ very position, and subtly different “experimental idealism”, which, importantly, as an alternative standpoint seems to raise no additional difficulty, and b) showing that “experimental theism”, provided it is identifiable also with the latter, turns out in fact to be immune to a part of Hume’s criticism of the former.
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