Open AccessMagical Thinking
Author(s) -
Andrew M. Bailey
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
faith and philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.301
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2153-3393
pISSN - 0739-7046
DOI - 10.37977/faithphil.2020.37.2.3
Subject(s) - theism , epistemology , philosophy , philosophy of religion
According to theists, God is an immaterial thinking being. The main question of this article is whether theism supports the view that we too are immaterial thinking beings. I shall argue in the negative. Along the way, I will also explore some implications in the philosophy of mind following from the observation that, on theism, God’s mentality is in a certain respect magical.