Reading for Hume and Shepherd Section
After we finish Descartes we will do a short section on David Hume and Lady Mary Shepherd. Those of you who prefer to get a headstart may want to start the readings. They are:
David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X (’Of Miracles’). This is relatively easy to find, both in libraries and online. Some places you can find it online (any one of these will do):
Lady Mary Shepherd, Essays on the Perception of an External Universe, Essay VIII (’That human testimony is of sufficient force to establish the credibility of miracles’). This is harder to find, so I’ll be handing out a hardcopy in class. To read it online, go to page 325 at this Google Book page.
