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Abstract (may include machine translation)
This paper discusses the familiar question of whether expressions of faith or conviction offered by religious believers really express their beliefs, in the standard sense of 'belief' used in philosophy and psychology. Some hold that these expressions do not express genuine beliefs because they do not meet the standards of rationality, coherence and integration which govern beliefs. So they must serve some other function. But this picture of 'genuine belief' is inadequate, for reasons independent of the phenomenon of religion. Once we get a better picture of belief, we can see that religious beliefs conform to this picture, and that typical expressions of faith really are expressions of belief in the proper sense.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 414-429 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Journal | Neue Zeitschrift fur Systematische Theologie und Religionsphilosophie |
Volume | 65 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Nov 2023 |
Keywords
- Religious belief
- inferential integration
- propositional attitudes
- rationality
- realism about beliefs
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Knowledge in Crisis/ Wissen in der Krise
Crane, T. (PI), Farkas, K. (CoPI), Gheaus, A. (Researcher), Passinsky, A. (Researcher), Huoranszki, F. (Researcher), Kronfeldner, M. (Researcher), Rippon, S. (Researcher) & Mason, C. (Researcher)
1/10/23 → 31/08/28
Project: Research