The Measure of Madness : Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Delusional Thought /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gerrans, Philip, 1959- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Neuropsychiatry.
PSYCHOLOGY > Cognitive Psychology.
MEDICAL > Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL > Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Clinical Medicine.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
Psychologie > Methodes de simulation.
Neuropsychiatrie.
Models, Psychological
Cognition Disorders > psychology
Theory of Mind
Delusions > psychology
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
ISBN:9780262320979

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