Delusional beliefs are seen in association with a number of neuropathological conditions,
including schizophrenia, dementia, and traumatic brain injury. A key distinction exists …

Language and thought dysfunction are central to the schizophrenia syndrome. They are
evident in the major symptoms of psychosis itself, particularly as disorganized language …

Feelings of Being is the first ever account of the nature, role and variety of'existential
feelings' in psychiatric illness and in everyday life. There is a great deal of current …

From an evolutionary standpoint, a default presumption is that true beliefs are adaptive and
misbeliefs maladaptive. But if humans are biologically engineered to appraise the world …

A philosophical account of the structure of experience and how it depends on interpersonal
relations, developed through a study of auditory verbal hallucinations and thought insertion …

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional
people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic …

In an ideal world, our beliefs would satisfy norms of truth and rationality, as well as foster the
acquisition, retention, and use of other relevant information. In reality, we have limited …

In this paper we defend the doxastic conception of delusions against the metacognitive
account developed by Greg Currie and collaborators. According to the metacognitive model …

Subjects with delusions profess to believe some extremely peculiar things. Patients with
Capgras delusion sincerely assert that, for example, their spouses have been replaced by …

A popular approach to monothematic delusions in the recent literature has been to argue
that monothematic delusions involve broadly rational responses to highly unusual …