Pathologies of belief
By: edited by Max Coltheart and Martin Davies.
Contributors: Coltheart, Max.; Davies, Martin, 1950-
Series: Readings in mind and language
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2000
Place of publication: [Oxford]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Delusions; Psychology, Pathological; Philosophy of mind
Description: "In this book, psychologists and philosophers describe and discuss a range of case studies of delusional beliefs, drawing out general lessons both for the cognitive architecture of the mind and for the notion of rationality. They also begin to explore connections between the delusional beliefs that occur in schizophrenia and the flawed understanding of beliefs that is characteristic of autism."--Jacket.
Notes: "The chapters in this volume ... first appeared in a special issue of Mind and language, v.15 no.1, Feb 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: pathologies of belief / Martin Davies and Max Coltheart; title: 2. Wondrous strange: the neuropsychology of abnormal beliefs / Andrew W. Young; title: 3. Towards an understanding of delusions of misidentification: four case studies / Nora Breen ... [et al.]; title: 4. Refining the explanation of Cotard's delusion / Philip Gerrans; title: 5. Insights into theory of mind from deafness and autism / Candida C. Peterson and Michael Siegal; title: 6. Rationality and schizophrenic delusion / Ian Gold and Jakob Hohwy; title: 7. Imagination, delusion and hallucinations / Gregory Currie; title: 8. The cognitive neuropsychology of delusions / Robyn Langdon and Max Coltheart; title: List of contributors; title: Index.