Hume's Critique of Religion: 'Sick Men's Dreams'

“Students and more advanced scholars alike will find this study highly illuminating and instructive. It deserves to be widely read and carefully considered.” (Paul Russell, The Philosophical Quarterly, March, 2018)

• Chapter 1. Hume the Infidel.- Chapter 2. Blasphemy, Dissimulation, and Humean Prudence.- Chapter 3. Hume's Writings on Religion.- Chapter 4. Hume on the Intelligibility of Religious Discourse.- Chapter 5. Epistemological Scepticism and Religious Belief.- Chapter 6. That Simple and Sublime Argument.- Chapter 7. The Design Argument and Empirical Evidence of God's Existence.- Chapter 8. The Problem of Evil.- Chapter 9. Miracles.- Chapter 10. The Natural History of Religion.- Chapter 11. Morality.- Chapter 12. History and the Evaluation of Religion.- Chapter 13. Was Hume an Atheist?.