The present article spotlights challenging conceptual and epistemological issues regarding
delusions. A research history of various approaches to delusions in Europe, the United …

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 …

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 …

Cognitive psychologists have recently identified alterations in perception and reasoning that
contribute to the formation and maintenance of beliefs that happen to be delusional …

This article examines the supposedly incomprehensibility of schizophrenic delusions.
According to the contemporary classificatory systems (DSM-IV-TR and ICD-10), some …

Jennifer Radden has drawn attention to two features of delusion, ambivalence and
subjectivity, which are problematic for theories of delusion that treat delusions as empirical …

Psychopathological delusions have a number of features that are curiously difficult to
explain. Delusions are resistant to counterevidence and impervious to counterargument …

Delusions are often regarded as irrational beliefs, but their irrationality is not sufficient to
explain what is pathological about them. In this paper we ask whether deluded subjects …

The problem of delusion–das Wahnproblem–constitutes the central puzzle of descriptive
psychopathology. The question 'what is it to suffer delusion?'is easy to ask, but surprisingly …

The notion of disordered self as the core, trait-phenotypic disturbance of schizophrenia was
ventilated in nearly all foundational texts on schizophrenia, and it is strongly supported by …