DELUSION AND SELF-DECEPTION by Tim Bayne (Editor), Jordi Fernandez (Editor) ( 9781841694702 )

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DELUSION AND SELF-DECEPTION
AFFECTIVE AND MOTIVATIONAL INFLUENCES ON BELIEF FORMATION

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Tim Bayne (Editor), Jordi Fernandez (Editor)

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TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

1 December, 2008

Series:

Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science

Pages:

310

Description:

Presents an interdisciplinary examination of the relationship between delusions and self-deception, bringing the work on motivated reasoning to bear on the problems posed by these forms of pathological belief. This text is also of interest to cognitive scientists interested in the nature of belief and the disturbances to which it is subject.

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This collection of essays focuses on the interface between delusions and self-deception. As pathologies of belief, delusions and self-deception raise many of the same challenges for those seeking to understand them. Are delusions and self-deception entirely distinct phenomena, or might some forms of self-deception also qualify as delusional? To what extent might models of self-deception and delusion share common factors? In what ways do affect and motivation enter into normal belief-formation, and how might they be implicated in self-deception and delusion? The essays in this volume tackle these questions from both empirical and conceptual perspectives. Some contributors focus on the general question of how to locate self-deception and delusion within our taxonomy of psychological states. Some contributors ask whether particular delusions - such as the Capgras delusion or anosognosia for hemiplegia - might be explained by appeal to motivational and affective factors. And some contributors provide general models of motivated reasoning, against which theories of pathological belief-formation might be measured.The volume will be of interest to cognitive scientists, clinicians, and philosophers interested in the nature of belief and the disturbances to which it is subject.

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