Belief as emotion: comments on Schleifer-McCormick

In Belief as Emotion, Miriam Schleifer-McCormick argues that the standard view of belief, which understands it in terms of evidence-responsiveness, founders in accounting for “problematic states” such as delusions, implicit bias, political opinions, and trust. If we view belief as an emotion, we get a much more plausible account of these states. She gives additional arguments for the plausibility of the belief-as-emotion thesis. In this piece, I cast doubt on her claims about the limitations of the standard view as well as on the plausibility of the view that belief is an emotion.