Winfried Löffler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1003577 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Winfried Löffler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Winfried |
| FAMILY NAME | Löffler |
| SIGNATURE | LÖFFLER W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-1319-5601 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secular Reasons for Confessional Religious Education in Public Schools
The cultural importance of religion and its ambiguous potential effects on the stability of liberal democracy and the rule of law recommend including information about religions in public school curricula. In certain contexts, there are even good secular reasons to have this done by teachers approved by the religious communities for their respective groups of pupils, as is being practiced in various European states (with a possibility of opting o…
Las creencias religiosas como creencias cosmovisivas
In this paper, I defend a moderately cognitive account of religious beliefs. Religious beliefs are interpreted as "worldview beliefs", which I explicate as being indispensable to our everyday and scientific practice; my reading is nonetheless distinct from non-cognitivist readings of "worldview belief" which occasionally appear in the literature
Moralische Dilemmata und hard cases
Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement
This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. They focus on five key debates in contemporary epistemology: Does the term “to know” vary its meaning according to features of the contexts in which it is uttered? What role may “epistemic virtues” play in our cognitive activities? What is the surplus value of having knowledge instead of mere true belief? …
Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie
381 Buchbesprechungen © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden ZRGG 59, 4 (2007) Also available online - www.brill.nl BUCHBESPRECHUNG Winfried Löffler: Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buch- gesellschaft, 2006, 192 S. Dieses klar gegliederte, gut lesbare und stringent durchgeführte Lehrbuch zur Religionsphilosophie hinterläßt einen zwiespältigen Eindruck, da der sehr ehrli- che und selbstkritische Verf. seine eigenen Thesen immer wi…
Secular Reasons for Confessional Religious Education in Public Schools
The cultural importance of religion and its ambiguous potential effects on the stability of liberal democracy and the rule of law recommend including information about religions in public school curricula. In certain contexts, there are even good secular reasons to have this done by teachers approved by the religious communities for their respective groups of pupils, as is being practiced in various European states (with a possibility of opting o…
Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement
This volume collects papers that were presented at the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium 2011 in Kirchberg am Wechsel, Austria. They focus on five key debates in contemporary epistemology: Does the term “to know” vary its meaning according to features of the contexts in which it is uttered? What role may “epistemic virtues” play in our cognitive activities? What is the surplus value of having knowledge instead of mere true belief? …
Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie
381 Buchbesprechungen © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden ZRGG 59, 4 (2007) Also available online - www.brill.nl BUCHBESPRECHUNG Winfried Löffler: Einführung in die Religionsphilosophie. Darmstadt: Wiss. Buch- gesellschaft, 2006, 192 S. Dieses klar gegliederte, gut lesbare und stringent durchgeführte Lehrbuch zur Religionsphilosophie hinterläßt einen zwiespältigen Eindruck, da der sehr ehrli- che und selbstkritische Verf. seine eigenen Thesen immer wi…
Moralische Dilemmata und hard cases
Secular Reasons for Confessional Religious Education in Public Schools
The cultural importance of religion and its ambiguous potential effects on the stability of liberal democracy and the rule of law recommend including information about religions in public school curricula. In certain contexts, there are even good secular reasons to have this done by teachers approved by the religious communities for their respective groups of pupils, as is being practiced in various European states (with a possibility of opting o…
Las creencias religiosas como creencias cosmovisivas
In this paper, I defend a moderately cognitive account of religious beliefs. Religious beliefs are interpreted as "worldview beliefs", which I explicate as being indispensable to our everyday and scientific practice; my reading is nonetheless distinct from non-cognitivist readings of "worldview belief" which occasionally appear in the literature
Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Religion, Theology, and Education (2 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 work) · Brill (1 work) · Cognition (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work) · Confessional (1 work) · Curriculum (1 work)