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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts
MIT Press
2014
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| Series: | Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology
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| Collection: | MIT Press eBook Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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 |
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| Physical Description: | xxiv, 274 pages |
| ISBN: | 9780262320979 0262320975 |