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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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Religious studies
Jahr: 2019, Band: 55, Heft: 4, Seiten: 447-468 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Agnostizismus
/ Fiktionalismus
/ Glaube
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| RelBib Classification: | AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000161 |