The measure of madness : philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience, and delusional thought / Philip Gerrans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerrans, Philip, 1959- author.

Series:

Life and mind.

Life and mind: philosophical issues in biology and psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Neuropsychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

The measure of madness

Models, mechanisms, and cognitive theories

The processing hierarchy and the salience system

The default mode network

Dreaming, default thinking, and delusion

The second factor : default or doxastic incorporation

Imagination incorporated

The sense of agency, lost and found : experience and thought in schizophrenic delusion

Louis Sass and the schizophrenic lifeworld.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-32098-3

0-262-32097-5

OCLC:

884478905