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Is Religious Education Possible? : a Philosophical Investigation.
Is Religious Education Possible?: A Philosophical Investigation tackles a well-established problem in the philosophy of education. The problem is the threat posed to the logical possibility of non-confessional religious education by the claim that religion constitutes an autonomous language-game or...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2006.
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| Colección: | Continuum studies in research in education.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword; 1 A Philosophical Problem; Introduction; The philosophical debate; Paul Hirst; Roger Marples; David Attfield; Peter Gardner; A related debate; Conclusion; 2 Understanding a Form of Knowledge; Introduction; The forms of knowledge thesis; Hirst''s presentation of the thesis; Criticisms of Hirst; Knowledge, propositions and truth; A restatement of the thesis; Understanding a form of knowledge; Conclusion; 3 Is there a Religious Form of Knowledge?; Introduction; Six accounts of religious belief; Wittgenstein; D.Z. Phillips; W.D. Hudson; John Wisdom; Allen Brent.
- Michael Leahy and Ronald LauraConclusion; 4 The Meaning of Religious Propositions; Introduction; The concept of religion; Metaphorical applications of the term ''religion''; Two criteria of religion; Two anxieties about the concept of religion; The meaning of religious propositions; The concept of god; A note on the term ''God''; The logic of disputes about gods; Conclusion; 5 Mental and Material Propositions; Introduction; Mental and material propositions; The autonomy of mental propositions; Descartes'' argument; The behaviourist case; Knowledge without observation.
- The problem of other mindsConclusion; 6 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; O; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z.