Jordi Fernández |
Blog on delusions, memory distortions, confabulations, biases and irrational beliefs.
Friday 30 August 2013
Transparent Minds
We all know what mental states we are in. We know whether we are happy, whether we are in pain, whether we have religious beliefs, whether we have a desire to be a philosopher, and so on. But how do we know it?
I have recently proposed (Transparent Minds: A Study of Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press, 2013) that we determine which beliefs and desires we have on the basis of our grounds for belief and desire. The idea is that the racist, for example, thinks that he believes that white people are more intelligent than black people on the basis of his hate towards black people. The theory is one of the 'transparent' approaches inspired by Gareth Evans's observation that, when we are asked what we believe, we look at the world instead of inspecting the contents of our own minds.
Tuesday 20 August 2013
Relationism and Empiricist Accounts of Delusion
Ema Sullivan-Bissett |
Paul Noordhof |
Monday 19 August 2013
Delusion in DSM-5: A Response to Lisa
Kengo Miyazono |
Is the definition of delusion really different between DSM-5 and DSM-IV?
In DSM-5, definitional remarks on delusion appear twice; first, in "Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders" in Section II (p.87) and, second, in "Glossary of Technical Terms" in Appendix (p.819). So, we need to look at both of them and compare them to their counterparts in DSM-IV.
Friday 16 August 2013
Reactions to the Question: Are Delusions Beliefs?
Sam Wilkinson |
The issue of whether delusions are beliefs has
been central to philosophical work on delusion, as several of the
previous posts here reflect (see especially Bortolotti and Gerrans).
I'd like to express a few reactions to this debate.
Obviously, before we can ask whether delusions are
beliefs, we need to get clear about the nature of delusions, and the
nature of beliefs.
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