Research Catalog

Title

Pathologies of belief / edited by Max Coltheart and Martin Davies.

Publication

[Oxford] : Blackwell, c2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Coltheart, Max
• Davies, Martin, 1950-

Description

224 p.; 25 cm.

Summary

"In this book, psychologists and philosophers describe and discuss a range of case studies of delusional beliefs, drawing out general lessons both for the cognitive architecture of the mind and for the notion of rationality. They also begin to explore connections between the delusional beliefs that occur in schizophrenia and the flawed understanding of beliefs that is characteristic of autism."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Readings in mind and language

Uniform Title

Readings in mind and language

Subjects

• Psychopathology
• Philosophy of mind
• Psychology, Pathological
• Delusions

Note

• "The chapters in this volume ... first appeared in a special issue of Mind and language, v.15 no.1, Feb 2000.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Introduction: pathologies of belief / Martin Davies and Max Coltheart -- 2. Wondrous strange: the neuropsychology of abnormal beliefs / Andrew W. Young -- 3. Towards an understanding of delusions of misidentification: four case studies / Nora Breen ... [et al.] -- 4. Refining the explanation of Cotard's delusion / Philip Gerrans -- 5. Insights into theory of mind from deafness and autism / Candida C. Peterson and Michael Siegal -- 6. Rationality and schizophrenic delusion / Ian Gold and Jakob Hohwy -- 7. Imagination, delusion and hallucinations / Gregory Currie -- 8. The cognitive neuropsychology of delusions / Robyn Langdon and Max Coltheart -- List of contributors -- Index.

ISBN

0631221360

OCLC

• 44832681
• SCSB-12847504

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library