The philosophy and psychology of delusions : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by Ana Falcato and Jorge Gonçalves.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Falcato, Ana, editor.

Gonçalves, Jorge, 1960- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

Series:

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delusions.

Psychology and philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 209 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Ana Falcato holds a PhD in Philosophy from the NOVA/FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal. Between 2013 and 2015, she was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Kant-Studien, Wittgenstein-Studien, Daimon: Revista International de Filosof̕a and the Deutsche Zeitschrift f|r Philosophie. She published Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism in 2018 and Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values in 2019 (co-edited with Lu̕s Aguiar de Sousa). In 2021 appeared her edited collection The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves. Ana is Assistant Researcher at NOVA/FCSH, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee. Jorge Goṅalves is a Post-doctoral research fellow in Philosophy at Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (IFILNOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he works on Philosophy of Psychiatry, Consciousness and Self-Studies, and Philosophy of Psychology. He graduated first in Psychology (1988) and afterwards in Philosophy (1997), both in Lisbon. He has a master's degree in Philosophy (2002) and a PhD (2007) in Philosophy ("Consciousness and Natural Order"). Between 1988 and 1999, he worked as a clinical psychologist (educational, learning disabilities and chronic mental illness). Goṅalves's current research is on topics in Philosophy of Psychiatry, with a special focus on the concept of mental illness, the mindbody problem and psychiatry, theories of delusion, and the problem of the unconscious. He is the author of several papers and editor of three books. Jorge was PI of the funded project 'Cognitive Foundations of the Self', sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) between 2009 and 2012.

Contents:

Introduction: Everyday and non-everyday delusions / Ana Falcato and Jorge Gonçalves

The conceptual history of délire (delusion) from its appearance to the present day / Diogo Telles Correia and Carlos Siopa

Kant on mental disorder and pragmatic delusions : social intercourse as inhibitor of lunacy / Nuria Sánchez Madrid

The madness of guilt : against contemporary approaches to shame and guilt / Ana Falcato

Ancient, medieval and early modern ideas about delusional thought in Burton's Anatomy / Jennifer Radden

Meaning and delusion / Rick Bellaar and Jasper Feyaerts

Delusional realities, world traveling and transitional objects / Ashleigh Morales and Shaun Gallagher

Minimal biological adaptiveness and the phenomenology of delusions in schizophrenia / Pablo López-Silva

An active inference account of the Cotard delusion of inexistence / Philip Gerrans

From abnormal time-space experience to delusions

spatiotemporal psychopathology / Filipe Arantes-Gonçalves and Georg Northoff

Defining delusion in the DSM-5 / Jorge Gonçalves

Delusions across and beyond diagnoses / Luigi Grassi and Lisa Bortolotti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2023).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Beth & Matthew Mezvinsky Collection Fund for Modern Philosophy.

Other Format:

Print version: Philosophy and psychology of delusions

ISBN:

9781000916331

1000916332

9781003288992

1003288995

9781000916300

1000916308

Publisher Number:

99994373877

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