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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Auteur principal: Howard-Snyder, Daniel (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press [2019]
Dans: Religious studies
Année: 2019, Volume: 55, Numéro: 4, Pages: 447-468
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Agnosticisme / Fiktionalismus / Foi
RelBib Classification:AB Philosophie de la religion
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Résumé: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.
ISSN:1469-901X
Contient:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412518000161