Author: Steven E. Boër
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: belief, philosophical, studies, series, attribution, semantics, contents, ontology, thought
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-12-08
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 1402050844
ISBN-13: 9781402050848

This book provides a formal ontology of senses and the belief-relation that grounds the distinction between de dicto, de re, and de se beliefs as well as the opacity of belief reports. According to this ontology, the relata of the belief-relation are an agent and a special sort of object-dependent sense (a "thought-content"), the latter being an "abstract" property encoding various syntactic and semantic constraints on sentences of a language of thought. One bears the belief-relation to a thought-content T just in case one (is disposed as one who) inwardly affirms a certain sentence S of oneâ

Author: Andrew Collier
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: christian, belief, studies, realism, routledge, critical, religious, defence, cognitive, conception, context
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2004-01-03
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0415315220
ISBN-13: 9780415315227

On Christian Belief offers a defence of realism in the philosophy of religion. It argues that religious belief - with particular reference to Christian belief - unlike any other kind of belief, is cognitive; making claims about what is real, and open to rational discussion between believers and non-believers. The author begins by providing a critique of several views which either try to describe a faith without cognitive context, or to justify believing on non-cognitive grounds. He then discusses what sense can be made of the phenomenon of religious conversion by realists and non-realists. Aft

Author: Stephen Curtis
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Keywords: belief
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-12-03
List price: $15.49
ISBN-10: 144903005X
ISBN-13: 9781449030056

Do you believe? Do you believe in the existence of Fairies and the age old connection of them to the world of nature? Spring is comming. New life should be exploding from all the wonderous forms of nature. But something is wrong, life itself is dying. Faced with a seemingly impossible task, Queen Cellista of the Woodland Fairy Clan, must put a plan into action, if life itself is to survive. There are only two people she can rely on to achieve the impossible. One of them is less than co-operative, when faced with the prospect of having to actually use some physical effort. The other has been br

Authors:W. V. Quine, J. S. Ullian,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: belief, web
Number of Pages: 147
Published: 1978-02-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0075536099
ISBN-13: 9780075536093

A compact, coherent introduction to the study of rational belief, this text provides points of entry to such areas of philosophy as theory of knowledge, methodology of science, and philosophy of language. The book is accessible to all undergraduates and presupposes no philosophical training.

Author: Edwyn. Beva
Publisher: Mcintosh Pre
Keywords: belief, symbolism
Number of Pages: 396
Published: 2008-11-04
List price: $43.45
ISBN-10: 1443731471
ISBN-13: 9781443731478

Originally published in 1938. SYMBOLISM AND BELIEF by EDWYN BEVAN PREFACE: THE lectures contained in this volume were given for the University of Edinburgh on Lord Giffords founda tion In the years 1933 and 1934. I have delayed their publication in the hope that with process of time I might, by further reading and thought, be able to expand and modify them, so as to make them more worthy of presen tation to the public in the form of a book. This hope has been so meagrely realized that it now seems best to let them go forth, with all their imperfections on their head, hardly at all altered from

Author: Michael William
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: belief, groundless
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1999-07-06
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0691009074
ISBN-13: 9780691009070

Inspired by the work of Wilfrid Sellars, Michael Williams launches an all-out attack on what he calls "phenomenalism," the idea that our knowledge of the world rests on a perceptual or experiential foundation. The point of this wider-than-normal usage of the term "phenomenalism," according to which even some forms of direct realism deserve to be called phenomenalistic, is to call attention to important continuities of thought between theories often thought to be competitors. Williams’s target is not phenomenalism in its classical sense-datum and reductionist form but empiricism generally

Author: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: belief, legitimation
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 1979-05-31
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0521295874
ISBN-13: 9780521295871