Object's details: How Does Anyone Change Belief about Anything?

Provider:Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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Title:
How Does Anyone Change Belief about Anything?
Creator:
Snoke, David
Description:
The question of coming to faith, and leaving Christian faith, has become prominent in recent years, with much discussion of Christian “conversion” and “deconversion.” Some people seem to make sudden changes in their belief systems; are such changes fundamentally irrational, or can we understand them as the outcome of a rational (though perhaps tacit) thought process? In this paper, I present a model for how people change their minds about both minor and major beliefs, with elements from Thomas Kuhn’s model of “revolutions,” as well as input from the modern philosophy, psychology, and Christian theology. The main thesis of this paper is that people regularly go through revolutions of varying degrees of magnitude, which can be quite sudden, based on the buildup of tension due to lack of felt coherence in a previously-held view, compared to their perception of alternative views. Such a process is rational at its core.
Object availability:
free access
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0 ;
Prawa autorskie (c) 2023 David Snoke
Date:
2023.02.25
Type:
info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Language:
English
Source:
Scientia et Fides; Vol. 11 No. 1 (2023); 79-98;
Scientia et Fides; Tom 11 Nr 1 (2023); 79-98;
2353-5636;
2300-7648
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/37801/34943
Subject:
Epistemology;
Kuhn;
Conversion;
Presuppositionalism
Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/SetF/article/view/37801
Data provider:
Akademicka Platforma Czasopism

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