[lit-ideas] Re: New Program in Psychoanalysis and Culture
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:39:26 -0400
Eric asks ... is there such a thing as "belief" without the content
of the belief?
Robert counterquestions: "For example?"
When I wrote the question, I was wobbling and wafting between two
notions of belief:
(1) that it requires content (to which Donal added that it also required
an attitude toward that content); and
(2) that the word "belief" may signify the operation of some biological
cognitive or mental facility which unifies the actions and functioning
of a human being irrespective of the particular content of the belief.
Concern 1 might be the province of philosophy and concern 2 the province
of cognitive scientists. Can they be combined?
Air-conditioned,
Eric
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