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SUMMARY:Faithful Attitudes: The Role of Faith in Our Lives
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DESCRIPTION:Overview: This call for attendance is for a forthcoming resea
 rch workshop to be held at the University of Manchester. The workshop ti
 tle and theme is ‘Faithful attitudes: The role of faith in our lives’. T
 he event will be held 15th – 16th May 2017. Attendance at the workshop i
 s free\, but spaces are limited and so we ask that you register if you w
 ould like to attend. The workshop will be held at the University of Manc
 hester\, though the precise rooms will be announced closer to the time. 
 We will also make a full programme available in the coming weeks.\n\nIf 
 you wish to register\, please send an email to Finlay Malcolm – finlay.m
 alcolm@manchester.ac.uk – by 24th April 2017.\n\nhttps://philevents.org/
 event/show/30534 \n\nTheme: Research on faith has traditionally focussed
  on epistemological questions about religious faith and in particular wh
 ether it is reasonable to have faith without conclusive evidence in its 
 favour. The aim of this conference is to broaden the discussion of faith
  in two main ways. \n\nFirst\, faith is widely taken to include non-cogn
 itive constituents that distinguish it from belief. This is often taken 
 to explain a further widely held assumption about faith\, that it is int
 rinsically motivational. There are a variety of proposals for what these
  non-cognitive components might be: motivational commitments\, desires\,
  obedience\, plans and commitments\, stances\, pro-attitudes\, and dispo
 sitions to act. However\, there is remarkably little discussion of these
  non-cognitive elements\, and more generally whether faith is motivation
 al\, and these different accounts have not been explored or defended in 
 detail. One objective of the workshop\, therefore\, is to address this l
 acuna in current research.\n\nSecond\, faith is underexplored as a topic
  in the philosophy of mind and psychology. Despite a recent resurgence i
 n interest in cognate topics such as the emotions\, trust and hope\, fai
 th has received relatively little attention. One of the aims of the work
 shop is to consider faith as a psychological phenomenon and\, moreover\,
  one that need not have a religious object or subject matter. The worksh
 op will\, in connection with this theme\, address the prospects for empi
 rical research on faith.\n\nDetails: The two-day event will include talk
 s from esteemed philosophers on various topics relevant to the conferenc
 e theme. \n\nSpeakers include: \n\nHelen De Cruz (Oxford Brookes)\nElena
  Kalmykova (Birmingham)\nJonathan Kvanvig (Washington University\, St. L
 ouis)\nMichael Scott (Manchester)\nAnastasia Scrutton (Leeds)\nMark Wynn
  (Leeds)\n\nThis conference is generously supported by a grant from The 
 Mind Association.
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