What’s Belief Got to Do With It?
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Sebastian Gäb
Abstract
This paper argues that even Crane’s modified account of belief doesn’t do justice to all varieties of religious belief. Particularly beliefs associated with ritual behavior don’t seem to match the criteria of Crane’s alternative account. So, the question remains whether these beliefs should still be called beliefs, or whether the standard model of belief is even more false than Crane suspects.
Zusammenfassung
Es wird die These vertreten, dass selbst Cranes modifizierter Glaubensbegriff nicht allen Formen religiösen Glaubens gerecht wird. Insbesondere scheinen Überzeugungen, die mit rituellem Verhalten in Verbindung stehen, nicht den Kriterien von Cranes alternativem Begriff zu genügen. Daher bleibt die Frage bestehen, ob diese Überzeugungen immer noch als Glauben bezeichnet werden sollten oder ob das herkömmliche Modell des Glaubens sogar noch problematischer ist als Crane vermutet.
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- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Munich Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion
- Is Religious Belief a Kind of Belief?
- What’s Belief Got to Do With It?
- Religious Belief, Occurrent Thought, and Reasonable Disagreement
- Why Belief? Varieties of Religious Commitment
- Replies to Gäb, Schmidt and Scott
- Other Research Articles
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Articles in the same Issue
- Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Munich Lecture in the Philosophy of Religion
- Is Religious Belief a Kind of Belief?
- What’s Belief Got to Do With It?
- Religious Belief, Occurrent Thought, and Reasonable Disagreement
- Why Belief? Varieties of Religious Commitment
- Replies to Gäb, Schmidt and Scott
- Other Research Articles
- Why we do not need demonstrative proof for God’s existence to know that God exists
- An Appraisal of Christoph Schwöbel’s Trinitarian Theology of Creation in Dialogue with Natural Sciences
