Posted: November 5th, 2015

Assignment

You must have access to this book: David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ed. Richard H. Popkin, 2nd ed. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1998).

Find one place in Hume’s Dialogues in which there is an argument, an objection to that argument, and a reply to the objection. Then answer the following questions:
•    What are the steps in the argument (in your own words)?
•    Does the objection contain multiple steps? If so, what are they (in your own words)?
•    Which part of the argument does the objection attack?
o    Does the objection attack one of the premises? If so, which premise?
o    Does the objection attack the conclusion?
o    Does the objection argue that one of the inferences in the argument is invalid?
•    Does the reply to the objection contain multiple steps? If so, what are they?
•    How does the reply attack the objection?
o    Does the reply attack one of the objection’s premises? If so, which premise?
o    Does the reply attack the objection’s conclusion?
o    Does the reply argue that one of the inferences in the objection is invalid?
o    Or is it the case that the objection is just a single statement and the reply simply argues against that statement?
•    Based on your answers to these questions, do you think the argument is successful?

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