Religion, Faith, and Practical Non-Cognitivism
Public lecture by Mark Wrathall, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College.
An exploration of the on-going debate over the question how belief-like faith is. This lecture offers a practice-based case for a non-cognitivist approach to religious faith that does not necessarily involve propositional belief.
Respondent by Professor Philip Buckley.
Mark Wrathall is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and a Tutorial Fellow at Corpus Christi College. He specializes in 19th and 20th century European philosophy, with a particular focus on the existential and phenomenological traditions of thought. Current areas of research involve the philosophy of agency, phenomenology of religion, and philosophy of art. He is a internationally renowned scholar on the work Martin Heidegger. His publications include: The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (2019); The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger’s Being and Time (2013); Heidegger and Unconcealment: Truth, Language and History (2011); How to Read Heidegger (2006); and Religion after Metaphysics (2003).
