More than belief, but not more than belief and desire

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ID5142532
AuthorsMark Q Gardiner (0000-0002-2294-733X, Mount Royal University, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume42
Issue4
Pages617-624
Publication date2012-10-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0048721x.2012.705478
OpenAlexW2037933706
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited16

Manuel A. Vásquez’ More Than Belief: A Materialist Theory of Religion paints a rich picture of what a ‘non-reductive materialist framework for the study of religion’ would look like. Although it receives strong motivation from the inability of the predominant meta-approaches of theorizing religion to take seriously a range of materially grounded religious phenomena, it suffers somewhat from a lack of independent and autonomous argumentation. This article explores a convergence between Vásquez’ main points and the basic elements of one of the most influential positions within philosophical semantics – namely the semantic holism of Donald Davidson. Because Davidson's holism (assuming its correctness) provides constraints on all forms of theorizing, the fact that Vásquez’ position, unlike the ones he critiques, conforms to those constraints lends it a degree of rational presumption

Argumentation theory · Epistemology · Holism · Materialism · Political science · Presumption · Reductionism · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Study and Philosophy of Religion

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