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This volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion, and seeks to get clearer on the nature of belief and imagination, the ways in which they relate to one another, and how they might be integrated into accounts of delusional belief formation.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- 1: Ema Sullivan-Bissett: Introduction
- PART I: Lessons from Delusion on Belief and Imagination
- 2: Kengo Miyazono: Delusion and Self-Knowledge
- 3: Amy Kind: Contrast or Continuum? The Case of Belief and Imagination
- 4: Philip R. Corlett: Imagination, Agency, and Predictive Processing
- PART II: Belief and Imagination in the Wild
- 5: Anna Ichino: Religious Imaginings
- 6: Michael Omoge: On the Place of Imagination in the Architecture of the Mind
- 7: Neil Levy: Believing in Stories: Delusions, Superstitions, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Fairy Tales
- PART III: Delusional Experience
- 8: Garry Young: The Capgras Delusion: An Interactionist Approach Revisited
- 9: Philip Gerrans: Cotard Syndrome: The Experience of Inexistence
- 10: Douglas Lavin and Lucy O'Brien: Delusions and Everyday Life
- PART IV: Delusions, Belief, and Evidence
- 11: Sophie Archer: Why Do You Believe That? Delusion and Epistemic Reasons
- 12: Nicholas Furl, Max Coltheart, and Ryan McKay: o The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?
- 13: Paul Noordhof: Irrationality and the Failures of Consciousness
- Index
About the author
Ema Sullivan-Bissett is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her research concerns the nature of belief and its connection to truth, as well as delusional belief formation and implicit bias. Her work has appeared in European Journal of Philosophy, Mind & Language, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese, among others. She co-edited with Helen Bradley and Paul Noordhof the volume Art and Belief (Oxford University Press, 2017), and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Delusion and author of the forthcoming Irrationality (Cambridge University Press).
Summary
This volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion, and seeks to get clearer on the nature of belief and imagination, the ways in which they relate to one another, and how they might be integrated into accounts of delusional belief formation.
