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Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation / William Hirstein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirstein, William.
- Series:
- Philosophical psychopathology.
- Philosophical psychopathology. Disorders in mind
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deception.
- Self-deception.
- Mythomania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Includes information on amnesia, anosognosia, Anton's syndrome, autism, Capgras' syndrome, Cotard's syndrome, denial, emotion, Fregoli's syndrome, hypothalamus, Korsakoff's amnesia, Korsakoff's syndrome, limbic system, lying, memory, mirror image syndome, orbitofrontal cortex, etc.
- Contents:
- Series Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1 - What Is Confabulation?; 2 - Philosophy and Neuroscience; 3 - Confabulation and Memory; 4 - Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators; 5 - Mind Reading and Misidentification; 6 - Unawareness and Denial of Illness; 7 - The Two Brains; 8 - Confabulation and Knowledge; 9 - Self-Deception; 10 - Epilogue: Our Nature; References; Name Index; Subject Index
- Notes:
- "A Bradford book."
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9786612098536
- 9780262311588
- 0262311585
- 9780262275477
- 0262275473
- 9781282098534
- 1282098535
- 9781423796565
- 142379656X
- OCLC:
- 71011625
- Publisher Number:
- 2100131
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