Hume’s criticisms

• How does Hume criticise Paley?


  The analogy between the world and a watch is weak. The world isn’t a machine
• What term describes comparing the world to a machine?

  Machine reductionism
• How does Hume criticise order?


  Order doesn’t mean there is a creator

  Maybe the world has self-sustaining order
• What is the argument from cause to effect?

  Cause and effect are not as simple as looking at the world and assuming the cause is God
• How does Hume criticise the Christian God?

  Even if there is a creator it isn’t necessarily the Christian God

  We have a finite, imperfect world, why would we have an infinite and perfect God?
• What is an issue with Leibniz’s approach?

  We can imagine something coming into existence without a cause, so maybe not everything has a cause
• What does Elizabeth Anscombe argue to support Leibniz?

  We can imagine a rabbit with no parents that just came into existence but this is not possible just because we imagine it