Kingston Philosophy Café

Kieran Quill will lead a discussion on beliefs:

I wouldn’t want to argue at the level of ordinary, everyday kinds of beliefs, such as that there is indeed a bus on the street now. Or even that there is a town called Khanty Mansiy way out in Russia somewhere (though I’ll never visit it).
More in terms of beliefs about the “Big Questions” that we so often debate:
Am I a ghost in a machine, or just a machine?; Free will; What is beauty?; Is there a cosmic purpose beyond individual personal purposes? Do we survive physical death?; God; What is morally right and wrong? Is the bus “really made of atoms?”- what does that “really” mean, even? Or even: “My family, anyway, love me”- At least this is one thing I REALLY can believe?
Clearly enough the huge majority of people, philosophers or not, insist that they do have some very, very definite beliefs, and that they could not possibly live life properly, or even at all, without them. Philosophers, in writing on Big Questions, often give the impression that they really DO believe in X or Y.
Presumably cats get on fine in their cat-thingness, but don’t hold such beliefs?