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

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Tim Bayne, Jordi Fernández
Psychology Press, Oct 18, 2010 - Philosophy - 310 pages

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.

 

Contents

1 Delusion and SelfDeception Mapping the Terrain
1
2 Passion Reason and Necessity A QuantityofProcessing View of Motivated Reasoning
23
3 SelfDeception and Delusions
55
4 Delusion and Motivationally Biased Belief SelfDeception in the TwoFactor Framework
71
5 Emotion Cognition and Belief Findings From Cognitive Neuroscience
87
6 Perception Emotions and Delusions The Case of the Capgras Delusion
107
7 From Phenomenology to Cognitive Architecture and Back
127
8 Monothematic Delusions and Existential Feelings
139
9 Sleights of Mind Delusions and SelfDeception
165
10 Cognitive and Motivational Factors in Anosognosia
187
11 SelfDeception Without Thought Experiments
227
12 Hysterical Conversion A Mirror Image of Anosognosia?
243
13 Imagination Delusion and SelfDeception
263
Author Index
281
Subject Index
289
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