Believing in something and believing that something is the case have some notoriously puzzling aspects. Believing means, on the one hand, having something stored in one’s mind, which one more or less explicitly accepts and, on the other hand, committing oneself to the implications of trusting that belief. Believing that EUARE is the right place to present the results of one’s research is a good example of this dual character of beliefs. If you entertain that belief, then you are more likely to attend the conference, but the nature of this attitude is far from transparent. Now, these features of believing stand out when a belief is resistant against contrary evidence. In such cases, resistance to change may appear as clear proof of irrationality. The experience of religious faith, however, shows that things are not so simple. Indeed, there are areas of existence in which unconditional faith in a person, an ideal, a mission, can reasonably influence people’s beliefs according to logics that pose genuine epistemic challenges. Presenting intermediate results of the interdisciplinary research project “Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond” (Euregio Science Fund), the panel will focus on the nature of disbelief, extreme religious beliefs, conspiracy theories, the role of metaphors in Christian faith, and how these boundary cases of the human capacity to believe may appear in different shapes depending on whether one approaches them from an internal or external perspective. Chair: Paolo Costa (Fondazione Bruno Kessler) Speakers:Boris Rähme (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Varieties of Non-Belief Eugenia Lancellotta (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Putting the Insanity Defense on Trial Gloria Dell’Eva (PTHSTA (Philosophical-Theological College Brixen-Bressanone), Religious Faith and Epistemic Belief: An Example from the History of Philosophy Scott Hill (Fondazione Bruno Kessler), Was King David a Conspiracy Theorist?