| Description |
1 online resource (318 p.) |
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Mind Association Occasional Series |
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Mind Association occasional series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Belief, Imagination, and Delusion -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 1. Overview of the Main Themes and Questions -- 1.1 What Can Delusion Teach Us about the Nature of Belief and Imagination? -- 1.2 What Roles Do Belief and Imagination Play in Certain Other Mental Phenomena? -- 1.3 What Is the Nature of Delusional Experience? -- 1.4 What Is the Relationship between Delusions, Irrationality, and Doxasticism? -- 2. Concluding Remarks -- 3. Synopses of Chapters -- 3.1 Chapter 2. Kengo Miyazono: 'Delusion and Self-Knowledge' |
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3.2 Chapter 3. Amy Kind: 'Contrast or Continuum? The Case of Belief and Imagination' -- 3.3 Chapter 4. Philip R. Corlett: 'Imagination, Agency, and Predictive Processing' -- 3.4 Chapter 5. Anna Ichino: 'Religious Imaginings' -- 3.5 Chapter 6. Michael Omoge: 'On the Place of Imagination in the Architecture of the Mind' -- 3.6 Chapter 7. Neil Levy: 'Believing in Stories: Delusions, Superstitions, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Fairy Tales' -- 3.7 Chapter 8. Garry Young: 'The Capgras Delusion: An Interactionist Approach Revisited' |
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3.8 Chapter 9. Philip Gerrans: 'Cotard Syndrome: The Experience of Inexistence' -- 3.9 Chapter 10. Douglas Lavin and Lucy O'Brien: 'Delusions and Everyday Life' -- 3.10 Chapter 11. Sophie Archer: 'Why Do You Believe That? Delusion and Epistemic Reasons' -- 3.11 Chapter 12. Nicholas Furl, Max Coltheart, and Ryan McKay: 'The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?' -- 3.12 Chapter 13. Paul Noordhof: 'Irrationality and the Failures of Consciousness' -- Acknowledgements -- References -- PART I: LESSONS FROM DELUSION ON BELIEF AND IMAGINATION |
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2: Delusion and Self-Knowledge -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Doxastic Recognition -- 3. Non-Doxastic Function -- 4. Tracking Function Rejected -- 5. Self-Interpretation Theory Rejected -- 6. Tracking Phenomenology -- 6.1 Basic Ideas -- 6.2 Clarifications -- 6.3 Objections -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3: Contrast or Continuum?: The Case of Belief and Imagination -- 1. Understanding the Orthodoxy -- 2. Clarifying the Challenge -- 3. Two Arguments -- 3.1 The Argument from Seamless Transition -- 3.2 The Argument from Functional Profiles -- 4. The Way Forward -- Acknowledgments |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- 4: Imagination, Agency, and Predictive Processing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Algorithms for Learning and Belief -- 3. Prediction Errors -- 4. Associative Learning -- 5. Imagination -- 6. Imagination and Psychosis -- 7. Reinforcement Learning and Imagination -- 8. Source Monitoring -- 9. Simple Mechanisms, Complex Phenomena -- 10. The Reality of Perception -- References -- PART II: BELIEF AND IMAGINATION IN THE WILD -- 5: Religious Imaginings -- 1. Religious Attitudes, Beliefs, and Imaginings -- 1.1 Imagination and Belief -- 2. 'Appeals to Evidence' vs. 'Sensitivity to Evidence' |
| Notes |
2.1 Normative Excursus-Job vs. Thomas |
| Subject |
Belief and doubt.
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Delusions -- Philosophy
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0198872240 |
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9780198872245 |
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