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384:. He argued that religious utterances are to be understood as "declarations of adherence to a policy of action, declarations of commitment to a way of life". A religious belief is an "intention to behave in a certain way together with the entertainment of certain stories associated with the intention in the mind of the believer". These stories "might psychologically support the resolution but it does not logically justify it". He also spoke about religious contradictions, which Braithwaite believed were permissible, in contrast to contradictions of empirical propositions where believing contradictions is "disastrous" due to the "courses of action appropriate" to these propositions being incompatible. 388:
adoption of a moral code in securing conformity to the code arises from a religious conviction changing what the religious man wants. It may be hard enough to love your enemy, but once you have succeeded in doing so it is easy to behave lovingly towards him. But if you continue to hate him, it requires heroic perseverance continually to behave as if you loved him. Resolutions to feel, even if they are only partly fulfilled, are powerful reinforcements of resolutions to act". He also argued that one aspect of all 'moral theistic religions' which was of "great psychological value", in that it enabled religious individuals to persevere, was that they are performing the will of God.
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Braithwaite remarked on a difference between secular morality and religious morality, with secular morality being focused on conduct or 'external life' whereas religious morality focused on both inner life and "outward conduct". This meant that "the superiority of religious conviction over the mere
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into some relation with ethical reasoning and, in doing that, he effectively started a whole new field of study, namely, how game-theoretic considerations are related to ethical ones. The topic of the lecture was the bargaining approach to distributive justice. In early writings, he called game
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Braithwaite believed that religious utterances had to do with emotions and were therefore not descriptions in the sense that a hypothesis is, religious belief is not "ordinary belief" like a belief in a
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in 1926. He was a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge from 1924 to 1990. He was appointed Cambridge University Lecturer in Moral Sciences in 1928.
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inclined, Braithwaite was a Christian, having been brought up a Quaker and becoming an Anglican later. According to theologian
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On Christian Belief A Defence of a Cognitive Conception of Religious Belief in a Christian Context
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of these two ideas, although Braithwaite himself had little sympathy for vague claims like these.
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science
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in 1978) and, after Ramsey's early death, edited a collection of his papers.
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Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief
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He was married (secondly) to the computational linguist and philosopher
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seeking a new view of the relationship between philosophy and science.
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After his retirement in 1967, Braithwaite was a visiting professor at
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Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. Braithwaite,
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Science, belief, and behaviour: essays in honour of R. B. Braithwaite
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The dictionary of national biography: founded in 1882 by George Smith
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Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. Braithwaite,
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where he lectured on game theory and encouraged one of his students,
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R.B. Braithwaite, details from the British Academy Fellows Archive
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Contemporary Perspectives on Rhetoric: 30th Anniversary Edition
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Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volumes
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The existence of logical features common to all the sciences
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Ramsey., Frank Plumpton (1931). Braithwaite, R. B. (ed.).
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This article is about the philosopher. For the poet, see
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An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief
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An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief
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Braithwaite, R.B.; Price, H.H. (1964). "Half-Belief".
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An Empiricist's View of the Nature of Religious Belief
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Foundations Of Mathematics And Other Logical Essays
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Theory of Games as a Tool for the Moral Philosopher
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Braithwaite - PhilPapers" 553:, Cambridge University Press, 1953, p. 1. 534:Alice Ambrose, Morris Lazerowitz (eds.), 1998:Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club 1896:Cambridge University Moral Sciences Club 1462:Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics 1192:Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 1393:Works associated with Paul Wittgenstein 958:"Reflections on Ethics and Game Theory" 527: 479:Moral principles and inductive policies 129: 1932; died 1986) 2058:Presidents of the Aristotelian Society 2003:Converts to Anglicanism from Quakerism 1284:'Richard Bevan Braithwaite, 1900–1990' 917:de Bruin, Boudewijn (September 2005). 906:. Taylor & Francis. pp. 32–3. 510:For a more complete list of works see 2068:Knightbridge Professors of Philosophy 1110: 1108: 891:. 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Index

Richard Braithwait
FBA

Banbury
Cambridge
King's College, Cambridge
Margaret Masterman
Contemporary philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy
G. E. Moore
Imre Lakatos
Stephan Körner
Philosophy of religion
religious belief
FBA
philosophy of religion
Banbury
Oxfordshire
Quaker
William Charles Braithwaite
Sidcot School
Somerset
Bootham School
York
conscientious objector
First World War
Friends' Ambulance Unit
King's College, Cambridge

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