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Zusatztext Delusions has great merit, and has really driven the new interdisciplinary research in philosophy of psychiatry. It is a model contribution to this literature for philosophically minded clinicians and clinically minded philosophers, as well as philosophers of mind and naturalistic epistemologists concerned with conditions on belief ascription. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
