Finlay Malcolm, Michael Scott

A Philosophy of Faith (eBook, PDF)

Belief, Truth and Varieties of Commitment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book engages with a range of questions about the nature of faith. The authors defend a distinctive conception of faith involving resistance to psychological, practical and epistemic challenges, from which a novel account of the psychology and epistemology of faith is developed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000629453
• Artikelnr.: 64185041

Autorenporträt

Finlay Malcolm is a Research Associate at King's College, London. His research is in social, political and religious epistemology, with a focus on trust, faith, democracy, free speech and fundamentalism. He is the author of numerous articles in leading academic philosophy journals including Pacific Philosophical Quarterly and The Monist.

Michael Scott is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Manchester, UK. He is the author of Religious Language (2013) and Reading Philosophy of Religion (2010) with Graham Oppy, and has published numerous papers in the philosophy of religion, philosophy of language and philosophy of psychology.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Propositional Faith
2. Against Nondoxasticism
3. True Grit and the Case for Doxasticism
4. Objectual Faith
5. Faith, Motivation and Plans
6. The Epistemic Status and Scope of Faith