Can fictionalists have faith?: It all depends
Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends on how we disambiguate fictionalists' and on what faith is. I consider the matter in light of my own theory. After clarifying its central terms, I distinguish two fictionalists - atheistic and agnostic - and I argue that, even though no atheistic fi...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Religious studies
Year: 2019, Volume: 55, Issue: 4, Pages: 447-468 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Agnosticism
/ Fiktionalismus
/ Faith
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism |
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| Summary: | Can fictionalists have faith? It all depends on how we disambiguate fictionalists' and on what faith is. I consider the matter in light of my own theory. After clarifying its central terms, I distinguish two fictionalists - atheistic and agnostic - and I argue that, even though no atheistic fictionalist can have faith on my theory, agnostic fictionalists arguably can. After rejecting Finlay Malcolm's reasons for thinking this is a problem, I use his paradigmatic agnostic fictionalist as a foil to explore a variety of ways in which to describe agnostic fictionalists, none of whom pose a problem for my theory. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000161 |