Guerra-Pujol on Evidence and Belief: David Hume in the Library of Babel

F. E. Guerra-Pujol, Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico; University of Central Florida, has published Evidence and Belief: David Hume in the Library of Babel. Here is the abstract.

What is the relation between evidence and belief? Is it possible to quantify this relationship? To address these questions, I will reimagine the great 18th-century religious skeptic and Enlightenment philosopher David Hume as the narrator of Jorge Luis Borges’ short story The Library of Babel. How would a bibliophile and skeptic like Hume navigate the infinite hexagons of Borges’ imaginary library? More to the point, how would this disorienting experience influence his famous argument against miracles?

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