Belief, Imagination, and Delusion

by Sullivan-Bissett, Ema

• ISBN13: 9780198872221
• ISBN10: 0198872224
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-02-28
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ema Sullivan-Bissett, Reader in Philosophy, University of Birmingham

Ema Sullivan-Bissett is a Reader in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham. Her research concerns the nature of belief and its connection to truth, as well as delusional belief formation and implicit bias. Her work has appeared in European Journal of Philosophy, Mind & Language, Philosophical Psychology, Philosophical Studies, and Synthese, among others. She co-edited with Helen Bradley and Paul Noordhof the volume Art and Belief (Oxford University Press, 2017), and is the editor of the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Delusion and author of the forthcoming Irrationality (Cambridge University Press).

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
1. Introduction
SECTION I: Lessons from Delusion on Belief and Imagination
2. Delusion and Self-Knowledge, Kengo Miyazono
3. Contrast or Continuum? The Case of Belief and Imagination, Amy Kind
4. Imagination, Agency, and Predictive Processing, Philip R. Corlett
SECTION II: Belief and Imagination in the Wild
5. Religious Imaginings, Anna Ichino
6. On the Place of Imagination in the Architecture of the Mind, Michael Omoge
7. Believing in Stories: Delusions, Superstitions, Conspiracy Theories and Other Fairy Tales, Neil Levy
SECTION III: Delusional Experience
8. The Capgras Delusion: An Interactionist Approach Revisited, Garry Young
9. Cotard Syndrome. The Experience of Inexistence, Philip Gerrans
10. Delusions and Everyday Life, Douglas Lavin and Lucy O'Brien
SECTION IV: Delusions, Belief, and Evidence
11. Why Do You Believe That? Delusion and Epistemic Reasons, Sophie Archer
12. o The Paradox of Delusions. Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence?, Nicholas Furl, Max Coltheart, and Ryan McKay
13. Irrationality and the Failures of Consciousness, Paul Noordhof