Delusions are commonly conceived as false beliefs that are held with certainty and which
cannot be corrected. This conception of delusion has been influential throughout the history …

A new theory is taking hold in neuroscience. It is the theory that the brain is essentially a
hypothesis-testing mechanism, one that attempts to minimise the error of its predictions …

Second generation antipsychotics (SGAs) have been implicated in the de novo emergence
and exacerbation of obsessive-compulsive symptoms (OCS) in patients with schizophrenia …

A comprehensive proposal for a conceptual framework for describing conscious experience
in dreams, integrating philosophy of mind, sleep and dream research, and interdisciplinary …

This chapter addresses two questions. First, can phenomenology be naturalized? Second, if
so, how? It employs the term 'phenomenology', and understands the question in this second …

It is argued that in order to properly engage with the debate regarding the ethics of belief
one first needs to determine the nature of the propositional attitude in question. This point is …

Recent accounts of delusions involve either top-down or bottom-up, or some hybrid version
of theories that rely on internalist, brain-based, or purely belief-based approaches. My intent …

This article addresses questions about the sense of agency and its distinction from the
sense of ownership in the context of understanding schizophrenic thought insertion. In …

Psychiatric treatment and diagnosis rests upon a richer conception of normativity than, for
example, cognitive neuropsychology. This paper explores the role that considerations of …

Because of the traditional conceptualization of delusion as “irrational belief,” cognitive
models of delusions largely focus on impairments to domain-general reasoning …