Pathologies of Belief

by Coltheart, Max; Davies, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780631221364
• ISBN10: 0631221360
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-01-16
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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, and exploring connections between the delusional beliefs that occur in schizophrenia and the flawed understanding of beliefs that is characteristic of autism.

Author Biography

Max Coltheart studied psychology at the University of Sydney and began his lecturing career there, subsequently teaching at the University of Waterloo in Canada and the University of Reading in England, before being appointed Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College London, a position he held for twelve years before returning to Australia in 1987 to become Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University in Sydney. He is the author of about 150 journal articles and book chapters, co-author of Language Processing in Children and Adults, and editor of nine collections including Deep Dyslexi and The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Language. He was the founding editor of the journal Cognitive Neuropsychology and one of the founding editors of Mind and Language.

Martin Davies studied philosophy at Monash University in Melbourne and at the University of Oxford and spent eleven years at Birkbeck College London as lecturer and then reader in philosophy. In 1993 he became the Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at Oxford, where he was a Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He returned to Australia in 2000 to take up a Professorship in the Philosophy Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. He is the author of Meaning, Quantification ,Necessity and Knowing What Thought Requires and editor of three collections in the Readings in Mind and Language series. He was one of the founding editors of Mind and Language.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction: Pathologies of Belief	1	(46)
Martin Davies
Max Coltheart
Wondrous Strange: The Neuropsychology of Abnormal Beliefs	47	(28)
Andrew W. Young
Towards an Understanding of Delusions of Misidentification: Four Case Studies	75	(36)
Nora Breen
Diana Caine
Max Coltheart
Julie Hendy
Corinne Roberts
Refining the Explanation of Cotard's Delusion	111	(12)
Philip Gerrans
Insights into Theory of Mind from Deafness and Autism	123	(22)
Candida C. Peterson
Michael Siegal
Rationality and Schizophrenic Delusion	145	(22)
Ian Gold
Jakob Hohwy
Imagination, Delusion and Hallucinations	167	(16)
Gregory Currie
The Cognitive Neuropsychology of Delusions	183	(34)
Robyn Langdon
Max Coltheart
List of Contributors	217	(2)
Index	219