Belief, emotion and trust
About this episode
This episode explores the connection between belief and emotion, challenging the traditional view of belief as purely rational and evidence-based.
The traditional philosophical view of belief is that it's a rational cognitive affair, evidence based and directed toward truth. According to this account, things like delusion and religious belief are "edge cases", exceptions that prove the rule. But this week we're considering not only that belief may be closely tied to emotion, but that it may actually be a form of emotion itself.
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