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Philosophy of religion during the Enlightenment (2008 Reading List)
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To read in advance:

J. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book IV, Chapters IX, X, XVII, XVIII, and XIX (Many editions; also available online).

 

G. Berkeley, Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous (Many editions; also available online).

 

D. Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (Many editions; also available online).

 

Additional reading:

J.L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (1982), especially chapters 4, 7, and 8.

 

J. Bennett, ‘God and matter in Locke’, in C. Mercer and E. O'Neill (eds.), Early Modern Philosophy - Mind, Matter, and Metaphysics (2005).

 

J. Bennett, Locke, Berkeley, Hume: Central Themes (1971), especially chapters 6 and 7.

 

D. O’Connor, Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hume on Religion (2000).

 

K. Haakonssen (ed.), The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy (2006), Section III.

 

P. Harrison, ‘Religion’ and the Religions in the English Enlightenment (2002).