Lisa Bortolotti

Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of delusions. It brings together recent work in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology and psychiatry, offering a comprehensive review of the philosophical issues raised by the psychology of normal and abnormal cognition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 318
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780199206162
• ISBN-10: 0199206163
• Artikelnr.: 27222854

Autorenporträt

Lisa Bortolotti is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her main research interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in the intersection between philosophy of mind and ethics. She has published a number of articles on belief ascription, rationality and delusions in journals such as Mind & Language and Philosophical Psychology. She is the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science for Polity Press, the editor of Philosophy and Happiness for Palgrave and the co-editor (with M.R. Broome) of Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives for Oxford University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Synopsis
1: The Background
2: Procedural Rationality and Belief Ascription
3: Epistemic Rationality and Belief Ascription
4: Agential Rationality and Belief Ascription
5: Beliefs and Self Knowledge
6: Conclusions
Bibliography and Reference List