Will I get a job? Contextualism, belief, and faith

Samuel Lebens

doi:10.1007/s11229-021-03045-3

Will I get a job? Contextualism, belief, and faith

Samuel Lebens

Department of Philosophy

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Abstract

Does faith require belief? “Belief-plus” accounts of faith say yes. “Non-doxastic” accounts say no but tend to place a “no-disbelief constraint” on faith. Both sides, I argue, are mistaken for making belief (or disbelief) explanatorily prior to faith. Indeed, both “faith” and “belief” have contextualist semantics, which leaves only a tenuous tie between the applications of the two words.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	5769-5790
Number of pages	22
Journal	Synthese
Volume	199
Issue number	3-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-021-03045-3
State	Published - Dec 2021

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Keywords

Belief
Contextualism
Faith

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Philosophy
General Social Sciences

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