Belief, emotion, and health: Toward an integrative account. Commentary on John Cromby’s ‘Beyond belief’

Abstract

This commentary identifies in Cromby’s formulation of belief the potentials for developing three innovative approaches to belief systems: emotion as meaning, cognition as dialogue, and an aesthetic model of meaning making based on Susanne Langer’s integrative approach to feeling and form. It is argued that the semiotics of Charles Sanders Peirce can help to weave these threads into an integrative theory to shed some light on the connection between belief, emotion, and health.