Main description:

This book presents new philosophical work on delusions and their impact on everyday human behavior. It explores a cluster of related topics at the intersection of philosophy of mind and psychiatry, while also charting the historical development of work on delusions.

Contents:

Introduction: Everyday and Non-Everyday Delusions Ana Falcato and Jorge Goncalves 1. The Conceptual History of Delire (Delusion) from its Appearance to the Present Day Diogo Telles Correia and Carlos Siopa 2. Kant on Mental Disorder and Pragmatic Delusions. Social Intercourse as Inhibitor of Lunacy Nuria Sanchez Madrid 3. The Madness of Guilt: Against Contemporary Approaches to Shame and Guilt Ana Falcato 4. Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Ideas about Delusional Thought in Burton's Anatomy Jennifer Radden 5. Meaning and Delusion Rick Bellaar and Jasper Feyaerts 6. Delusional Realities, World Traveling and Transitional Objects Ashleigh Morales and Shaun Gallagher 7. Minimal Biological Adaptiveness and the Phenomenology of Delusions in Schizophrenia Pablo Lopez-Silva 8. An Active Inference Account of the Cotard Delusion of Inexistence Philip Gerrans 9. From Abnormal Time-space Experience to Delusions - Spatiotemporal Psychopathology Filipe Arantes-Goncalves and Georg Northoff 10. Defining Delusion in the DSM-5 Jorge Goncalves 11. Delusions Across and beyond Diagnoses Luigi Grassi and Lisa Bortolotti