... of political ideology and religion within ISIS’ system of belief as a major theoretical challenge and how it determines authority and rule in ISIS's so-called Caliphate. Based on these findings, ISIS’ actions are spatially and temporarily situated as a possible response to emergent opportunity structures...

... to reconsider history much as Deleuze considered typical of modern political or minor cinema – the sticking point of Deleuze’s cinematic ethics is revealed: namely, in a world of cinemas broadly conceived it is not this world which a cinematic ethics asks us to rejuvenate our belief in, but this world’s history...

...This chapter examines the Kantian background to Friedrich Nietzsche's epistemology. It argues that Nietzsche's project of reconciling self and world is intertwined with both his appraisal and reconfiguration of Immanuel Kant's distinction between constitutive knowledge and regulative belief...

...This chapter considers belief and defends the following theory: A subject believes a proposition if and only if the subject is disposed to behave in a way that is governed by a version of practical rationality that works on the assumption that that proposition is true. Belief...

... commitment Harman G anti realism about mental states Descartes R dualism explanation of behaviour mechanism Melden A Ryle G volitions Wittgenstein L action Locke J causation intention occurrent thoughts Davidson D belief judgement rationality irrationality Moya C Brandom R Kavka G...

...This chapter demonstrates that Gilles Deleuze's work on Henri Bergson is not a departure for Deleuze but is rather part of his continuing effort to develop a transcendental empiricism. It first addresses some frequent criticisms of David Hume's theory of belief. It describes Hume's arguments...

... ‘as if’; a deception, yet one that does not deceive anybody. The belief in the illusion becomes interpassively delegated to a kind of virtual, naive observer. Postmodernity, with its obsession with questions of true identity, can be seen as the key enemy of this urban role-play. It thus contributes to the neoliberal...

... philosophical questions, concerning the paradoxical pleasure gained from delegated enjoyment, to their most current consequences: for example concerning interactivity and participation in the arts and in politics, generosity in culture, the status of belief, ritual and magic, cultural capitalism, civilized...

... inheritance of empirical Enlightenment scepticism, their rigorous critiques of the danger s of mental vision unchecked by facts, is more timely than ever in the current world dominated by fundamentalist free market, religious and nationalist belief systems....

...This chapter considers the freedom of Belief and Religion in Islam and absolute rejection of worldly punishments for apostasy. The first section analyses the conventional Islamic reading of the issue of freedom of belief and religion, as well the evidence it is based on. The second section...

...Chapter four provides details of a meta-analysis conducted into serial position effects. The meta-analysis also identified whether there are any significant differences in the proportion of bias under different analytical conditions between belief adjustment conducted in an intelligence scenario...

...Chapter 6 uses the concept of immanent belief as a means of further articulating the concept of metaphilosophy. Immanent belief is belief that takes as its object not another world, nor a transformed world, but solely this world as it is. Transcendent determinations of thought’s relation...

... William Adorno Theodor W Horkheimer Max Negri Antonio Tylor Edward Melitopoulos Angela Souriau Étienne Taiwanese Cinema machinic animism speculative pragmatism Deleuze and Guattari belief in the worl THIS ARTICLE AIMS at outlining a schizoanalytic and speculative approach to the complex dynamic...

...Chapter Eight returns to the topics with which Chapter One ended, and it completes Part Two’s reading of Hume through the Pyrrhonian Fourfold. The chapter examines Hume’s so-called Title Principle and argues that Hume is a doxastic sceptic and that his sceptical theory of belief is very much like...

... Charlotte Warden Jack Ariadna Nina Bello Maria Brister Julie Hurt William Raymonde Tania Winter Sarah Thirlby Olivia Yokum Dwight Wittgenstein skepticism tragedy acknowledgement restoration of belief Figure 7.1 Stanley Cavell has long championed my favorite thesis on what the movies do best...

...This chapter looks at the place of rhetoric and belief in the composition of death. Enter Macbeth, that character for whom the ‘suggestion’ by the witches of accession to the throne is powerful enough to ‘shake’ his ‘single state of man’ and bring forward his own end. The notion of suggestion...

... at a conceptual distance from their creators. This chapter explores the notion of conceptual distance in more detail and extends the investigation of the text-worlds of modalized discourse. The discussion here concentrates on the articulation of knowledge and belief through language and the processes by which...

.... The films deal with nationalism and post-war identity, the politics of terrorism, the limits to religious faith and belief and the ethics of ‘brainwashing’ and modern psychology. Frieda 1947 Gentle Gunman The 1952 Life for Ruth 1962 Mind Benders The 1963 Balcon Michael British Broadcasting Corporation...

..., provincial and cosmopolitan mentalities, religious belief and ceremony, and youth and ageing. audience viewing figures blockbuster ciudad no es para mí La The City’s Not For Me gran familia La The Great Family Lazaga Pedro Palacios Fernando popular cinema Viejo Cine Español VCE art auteurist cinema...

...The Conclusion returns to the introductory context of Nietzsche’s proclamation that “God is dead,” and it does so specifically in order to revisit the question of the future. It develops three theses. First, it articulates the concept of immanent belief as a means by which immanence necessarily...