Browsing by Author "Malcolm, Finlay"

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    • Can Fictionalists Have Faith? 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2018-06-30)
      According to non-doxastic theories of propositional faith, belief that p is not necessary for faith that p. Rather, propositional faith merely requires a 'positive cognitive attitude'. This broad condition, however, can ...

    • Cultivating Intellectual Humility in Political Philosophy Seminars 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2019-10-25)
      The cultivation of intellectual character is an important goal within university education. This article focusses on cultivating intellectual humility. It first explores an account of intellectual humility from recent ...

    • Democratic Legitimacy and the Competence Obligation 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2021-04-01)
      What obligations are there on voters? This paper argues that voters should make their electoral decision competently, and does so by developing on a recent proposal for democratic legitimacy. It then explores three problems ...

    • Epistocracy and Public Interests 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2022-03-30)
      Epistocratic systems of government have received renewed attention, and considerable opposition, in recent political philosophy. Although they vary significantly in form, epistocracies generally reject universal suffrage. ...

    • Faith, Belief and Fictionalism 

      Malcolm, Finlay; Scott, Michael (2017-12-27)
      Is propositional religious faith constituted by belief? Recent debate hasfocussed on whether faith may be constituted by a positive non-doxastic cognitivestate, which can stand in place of belief. This article sets out and ...

    • How to Insult and Compliment a Testifier 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2018-03-01)
      Do we insult or slight a speaker when we reject her testimony? Do we compliment or commend her when we accept her testimony? This paper argues that the answer to both of these questions is yes, but only in some instances, ...

    • The Moral and Evidential Requirements of Faith 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2020-04-15)
      What is the relationship between faith and evidence? It is often claimed that faith requires going beyond evidence. In this paper, I reject this claim by showing how the moral demands to have faith warrant a person in ...

    • The Rationality of Fundamentalist Belief 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2023-03-10)

    • Religious Fictionalism 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2018-03-07)
      Religious fictionalism is the theory that it is morally and intellectually legitimate to affirm religious sentences and to engage in public and private religious practices, without believing the content of religious claims. ...

    • Silencing and Freedom of Speech in UK Higher Education 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2021-06-01)
      Freedom of speech in universities is currently an issue of widespread concern and debate. Recent empirical findings in the UK shed some light on whether speech is unduly restricted in the university, but it suffers from ...

    • Testimonial Insult: A Moral Reason for Belief? 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2018-03-31)
      When you don’t believe a speaker’s testimony for reasons that call into question the speaker’s credibility, it seems that this is an insult against the speaker. There also appears to be moral reasons that count in favour ...

    • Testimony, Faith and Humility 

      Malcolm, Finlay (2020-01-09)
      It is sometimes claimed that faith is a virtue. To what extent faith is a virtue depends on what faith is. One construal of faith, which has been popular in both recent and historical work on faith, is that faith is a ...

    • True Grit and the Positivity of Faith 

      Malcolm, Finlay; Scott, Michael (2021-02-05)
      Most contemporary accounts of the nature of faith explicitly defend what we call ‘the positivity theory of faith’ – the theory that faith must be accompanied by a favourable evaluative belief, or a desire towards the object ...