On Believing

In an important article in the opening issue of Religious Studies, Professor H. H. Price states that: ‘Epistemologists have not usually had much to say about believing "in", though ever since Plato's time they have been interested in believing "that"' (loc. cit., vol. I...

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Main Author: Sleeper, R. W. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press [1966]
In: Religious studies
Year: 1966, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 75-93
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Summary:In an important article in the opening issue of Religious Studies, Professor H. H. Price states that: ‘Epistemologists have not usually had much to say about believing "in", though ever since Plato's time they have been interested in believing "that"' (loc. cit., vol. I, no. 1, p. 5). We are all considerably in debt to Professor Price for his extremely lucid analysis which will, I think, go a very long way towards filling the lacuna to which he points. As I find myself in agreement with almost every point which Price has made, my purpose here is not to make a ‘reply' to his article in the usual sense but to suggest that his analysis of believing is curiously and disappointingly incomplete. I shall offer some reasons of my own in support of this suggestion, not so much in criticism of Price's thesis as in hopes of finding some way out of the difficulties which, I take it, forced Price to stop short just where he did. It will be the burden of my argument to show that a more complete and satisfactory account of believing must include a description of its ‘metaphysical element' as well as of its epistemological and psychological conditions. For it is at the point of what I shall call the ‘metaphysics of believing' that Price's analysis and description of belief ‘in' and belief ‘that' stops short.1
ISSN:1469-901X
Reference:Kritik von "Belief ‘'In' and Belief ‘'That' (1965)"
Kritik in "On Believing - a Reply to Professor R. W. Sleeper (1967)"
Contains:Enthalten in: Religious studies
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002602