The measure of madness : philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and delusional thought /
Gerrans, Philip,1959-author.
This title offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature of belief and rationality with findings from cognitive science and neurobiology. The book argues that once we fully describe the computational and neural mechanisms that produce delusion and the way in which conscious experience and thought depend on them, the concept of delusional belief retains only a heuristic role in the explanation of delusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The measure of madness -- Models, mechanisms, and cognitive theories -- The processing hierarchy and the salience system -- The default mode network -- Dreaming, default thinking, and delusion -- The second factor : default or doxastic incorporation -- Imagination incorporated -- The sense of agency, lost and found : experience and thought in schizophrenic delusion -- Louis Sass and the schizophrenic lifeworld.
This title offers a novel explanation of delusion. Over the last two decades, philosophers and cognitive scientists have investigated explanations of delusion that interweave philosophical questions about the nature of belief and rationality with findings from cognitive science and neurobiology. The book argues that once we fully describe the computational and neural mechanisms that produce delusion and the way in which conscious experience and thought depend on them, the concept of delusional belief retains only a heuristic role in the explanation of delusion.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Neuropsychiatry.
PHILOSOPHY/Philosophy of Mind/General
COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
NEUROSCIENCE/General