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<p>In <i>Religion as Make-Believe</i>, Neil Van Leeuwen offers a novel and attractive hypothesis for why religious “beliefs” act so differently from paradigm beliefs — namely, that they are a fundamentally different kind of mental attitude. Van Leeuwen argues that these religious attitudes are better understood as akin to the imaginative states associated with make-believe. We argue, contra Van Leeuwen, that religious beliefs really are a species of belief, fundamentally of the same sort as ordinary beliefs; but they are sustained by different, less evidence-sensitive processes than ordinary beliefs.</p>

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Easy to imagine – or Hard to Believe?

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    2025年6月17日

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  • Jonathan M. Weinberg,
  • Aaron Meskin

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In Religion as Make-Believe, Neil Van Leeuwen offers a novel and attractive hypothesis for why religious “beliefs” act so differently from paradigm beliefs — namely, that they are a fundamentally different kind of mental attitude. Van Leeuwen argues that these religious attitudes are better understood as akin to the imaginative states associated with make-believe. We argue, contra Van Leeuwen, that religious beliefs really are a species of belief, fundamentally of the same sort as ordinary beliefs; but they are sustained by different, less evidence-sensitive processes than ordinary beliefs.