Delusion – The Brains Blog

I am delighted to announce the next symposium in our series on articles from Neuroscience of Consciousness.  Neuroscience of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary journal focused on the philosop...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2019/03/07/symposium-on-letheby-and-gerrans-self-unbound-ego-dissolution-in-psychedelic-experience.aspx

In my first post I argued that inconsistencies in visual space reflect a conflict between visual experience and perceptual judgement. In this second post I argue that the same approach can be app...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2018/06/26/perceptual-integration-and-visual-illusions.aspx

A number of philosophers have suggested that delusional people do not believe their delusions; they only imagine them and then mistake their imagining for a belief (Greg Currie has a view along t...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2015/04/22/imagination-and-delusion.aspx

It’s my pleasure to introduce Jakob Hohwy, Associate Professor and ARC Future Fellow at the Philosophy Department at Monash University, as our next featured scholar here at Brains. Jakob is a t...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2014/06/16/introducing-jakob-hohwy.aspx

You may (or may not) have noticed that Pete Mandik and Richard Brown (me) have started a podcast, called SpaceTimeMind, where we talk about tax law updates for 2014, uh, I mean, er, we talk about...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2014/04/04/spacetimemind.aspx

CALL FOR PROPOSALS “Mental Illness and Power” A Philosophy Conference at the University of Memphis Memphis, Tennessee February 21-22, 2014 Keynote Speaker: David Goodman (Lesley University) D...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/11/04/cfp-mental-illness-and-power.aspx

In my last post I want to go back to delusions. Isn’t it just hopeless to suggest that they can achieve epistemic innocence? It probably is, as delusions violate all norms of rationality for be...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/07/31/is-there-anything-good-about-delusions.aspx

In my previous post I suggested that the epistemic faults listed in most definitions of delusions are not distinctive of delusions. Although delusions may diverge from norms of rationality to a g...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/07/13/epistemic-definitions-of-delusion-and-confabulation.aspx

First of all, my thanks to John for a very generous introduction. I’m glad to be blogging on Brains when I’m about to start a brand new project. Come September, I’ll be on an AHRC Fellowshi...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/07/08/why-delusions.aspx

I’m honored to be able to introduce Lisa Bortolotti, currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham, as the first philosopher to discuss her work as a featured scholar here a...

https://philosophyofbrains.com/2013/07/07/introducing-lisa-bortolotti.aspx