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Theory of knowledge --- Intentionnalité (philosophie) --- Néant (philosophie) --- Objet (philosophie)

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Tim Crane addresses the ancient question of how it is possible to think about what does not exist. He argues that the representation of the non-existent is a pervasive feature of our thought about the world, and that to understand thought's representational power we need to understand the representation of the non-existent.

Intentionality (Philosophy) --- Nonexistent objects (Philosophy) --- Metaphysics --- Intentionnalité (Philosophie) --- Intentionnalité (Philosophie) --- Intentionality (Philosophy). --- Thought and thinking. --- Nonexistent objects (Philosophy). --- Metaphysics. --- Philosophy. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Philosophy --- God --- Ontology --- Philosophy of mind

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Contemporary debate about religion seems to be going nowhere. Atheists persist with their arguments, many plausible and some unanswerable, but these make no impact on religious believers. Defenders of religion find atheists equally unwilling to cede ground. The Meaning of Belief offers a way out of this stalemate. An atheist himself, Tim Crane writes that there is a fundamental flaw with most atheists' basic approach: religion is not what they think it is. Atheists tend to treat religion as a kind of primitive cosmology, as the sort of explanation of the universe that science offers. They conclude that religious believers are irrational, superstitious, and bigoted. But this view of religion is almost entirely inaccurate. Crane offers an alternative account based on two ideas. The first is the idea of a religious impulse: the sense people have of something transcending the world of ordinary experience, even if it cannot be explicitly articulated. The second is the idea of identification: the fact that religion involves belonging to a specific social group and participating in practices that reinforce the bonds of belonging. Once these ideas are properly understood, the inadequacy of atheists' conventional conception of religion emerges. The Meaning of Belief does not assess the truth or falsehood of religion. Rather, it looks at the meaning of religious belief and offers a way of understanding it that both makes sense of current debate and also suggests what more intellectually responsible and practically effective attitudes atheists might take to the phenomenon of religion.--

Belief and doubt. --- Atheists --- Faith. --- Psychology, Religious. --- Religious adherents. --- Croyance et doute --- Athées --- Foi --- Psychologie religieuse --- Attitudes. --- Attitudes --- Croyants --- Religious studies --- Athées

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Aspects of Psychologism is a penetrating look into fundamental philosophical questions of consciousness, perception, and the experience we have of our mental lives. Psychologism, in Tim Crane's formulation, presents the mind as a single subject-matter to be investigated not only empirically and conceptually but also phenomenologically: through the systematic examination of consciousness and thought from the subject's point of view. How should we think about the mind? Analytical philosophy tends to address this question by examining the language we use to talk about our minds, and thus translates our knowledge of consciousness into knowledge of the concepts which this language embodies. Psychologism rejects this approach. The philosophy of mind, Crane contends, has become too narrow in its purely conceptual focus on the logical and linguistic formulas that structure thought. We cannot assume that the categories needed to understand the mind correspond absolutely with such semantic categories. Crane's claim is that intentionality--the "aboutness" or "directedness" of the mind--is essential to all mental phenomena. He criticizes materialist doctrines about consciousness and defends the position that perception can represent the world in a non-conceptual, non-propositional way, opening up philosophy to a more realistic account of the mind's nature.

Psychologism. --- Phenomenology. --- Intentionality (Philosophy) --- Act (Philosophy) --- Mind and body --- Philosophy --- Philosophy, Modern --- Phenomenological psychology --- Phenomenology

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Philosophy of mind. --- Mental representation.