Mr Young on Miracles
In two recent papers, Mr Robert Young maintains that all attempts by philosophers to bolster the-violation-of-law concept of miracles are bound to fail and propounds what he claims to be a novel non-reductivist concept of miracles which avoids the conceptual difficulties of the violation-model. His...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1974]
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Religious studies
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| Summary: | In two recent papers, Mr Robert Young maintains that all attempts by philosophers to bolster the-violation-of-law concept of miracles are bound to fail and propounds what he claims to be a novel non-reductivist concept of miracles which avoids the conceptual difficulties of the violation-model. His view of miracles is of god being an active agent-factor in the set of factors (out of perhaps several sets sufficient for the event's occurrence) which actually was causally operative' [p. 123] in an event dubbed a miracle. God is put in among the plurality of causes' [p. 122, S p. 33] that could determine the event, but if he acts in a miracle, then his presence
alters the outcome from what it (perhaps) would have been if, contrary to fact, he had not been present' [p. 122]. Young claims that his concept is neither a violation of
laws nor is it a coincidental occurrence religiously interpreted' [p. 122, S p. 33], and so it avoids the difficulties, which he thinks are faced by the violation-model, of having an intelligible notion of an occurrence of the physically impossible, and also the reductivism inherent in taking mere coincidences as miracles. He also suggests a procedure of settling the epistemological issue regarding particular alleged miracles, an inquiry he thinks he has made possible by having first given a sense to miracles. [p. 126] |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik von "Miracles and Epistemology (1972)"
Kritik von "Miracles and Physical Impossibility, in: Sophia 1972" |
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500007708 |