Anthropology without Belief: An Anti-representationalist Ontological Turn
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0048393120917967" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0048393120917967</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0048393120917967" target="_blank" >10.1177/0048393120917967</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Anthropology without Belief: An Anti-representationalist Ontological Turn
Original language description
Rejecting the category of belief is one of the most striking and profound ideas to emerge from the ontological turn. This essay will argue that the rejection of belief is best understood as part of a broader rejection of representationalism. Representationalism regards thought, speech, and intentionality as depending primarily on the mind's ability to manipulate beliefs, ideas, meanings, or similar contents. Some central strands of the ontological turn thus participate in the philosophical project of understanding human life without appeal to such representational states. After showing how 20th century anthropology was implicated in the representationalist picture, this essay will critique some of the arguments against belief found among proponents of the ontological turn. It will then try to construct a more robust argument against the use of the category of belief in anthropology. It ends with some reflections on what it means to do anthropology without belief.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GF17-33808L" target="_blank" >GF17-33808L: Inferentialism and collective intentionality</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophy of the social sciences
ISSN
0048-3931
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
50
Issue of the periodical within the volume
6
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
24
Pages from-to
586-609
UT code for WoS article
000535508000001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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