Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation

Tim Bayne (Curatore)

Jordi Fernández (Curatore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2008

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.

• Curatore: Tim Bayne, Jordi Fernández
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 312 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 740 gr.
• EAN: 9781841694702

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