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Testimony, belief, and non-doxastic faith: the Humean argument for religious fictionalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2015

CHRISTOPHER JAY
CHRISTOPHER JAY*
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Department of Philosophy, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, UK e-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

I set out an argument for religious fictionalism which, unusually, proceeds from realist assumptions to the conclusion that even though some people might know that God exists, others ought to accept only non-doxastically that God exists. The argument relies upon the idea that religious experiences can confer immediate warrant on religious beliefs, whereas the warrant conferred by testimony is defeated by some reasonable beliefs which many people have.

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Religious Studies , Volume 52 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 247 - 261
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