Allan Hazlett challenges the philosophical assumption of the value of true belief. He critiques the view that true belief is better for us than false belief, and the view that truth is 'the aim of belief'. An alternative picture is provided, on which the fact that some people lo…
J. Bouveresse examine la version pragmatiste de la défense de la religion en la confrontant à ses précurseurs (Renan) et surtout à ses critiques rationalistes (Russell et Freud). Il complète son enquête par un examen de l'idéal religieux de Wittgenstein et par une discussion du …
"In many places and times, and for many people, God's existence has been rather less than a clear fact. According to the hiddeness argument, this is a reason to suppose that it is not a fact at all. The hiddeness argument is a new argument for atheism that has come to prominence…
"In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapse of 2008--while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking--was, ultimately, a failure of langu…
In everyday life we normally express our beliefs in all-or-nothing terms: I believe it is going to rain ; I don't believe that my lottery ticket will win. In other cases, if possible, we resort to numerical probabilities: my degree of belief that it is going to rain is 80% ; the…
In everyday life we normally express our beliefs in all-or-nothing terms: I believe it is going to rain ; I don't believe that my lottery ticket will win. In other cases, if possible, we resort to numerical probabilities: my degree of belief that it is going to rain is 80% ; the…
