<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in The Conviction, deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features they both share. Such distinction relates to other distinctions: ground and foundation, ideology and truth, etc. Fernando Gil’s main aim is the explanation of the intricate connections between the epistemic and the epistemological levels, that is between the relations the subject entertains with his beliefs and the relations those beliefs entertain with reality. In other words: his enquiry deals with the place of the subject in knowledge.</p></abstract>

Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in The Conviction, deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features they both share. Such distinction relates to other distinctions: ground and foundation, ideology and truth, etc. Fernando Gil’s main aim is the explanation of the intricate connections between the epistemic and the epistemological levels, that is between the relations the subject entertains with his beliefs and the relations those beliefs entertain with reality. In other words: his enquiry deals with the place of the subject in knowledge.

Fernando Gil,: alucinação, identidade e experiência estética

Phainomenon

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Fernando Gil’s last philosophy, as exemplified in The Conviction, deals with the distinction between belief and conviction, as well as with the common features...

Fernando Gil,: alucinação, identidade e experiência estética

Published Online: Oct 19, 2021

Page range: 315 - 330

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/phainomenon-2011-0015

© 2011 José Manuel Heleno, published by Sciendo

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