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In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions
Here I reply to the main points raised by the commentators on the arguments put forward in my Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009). My response is aimed at defending a modest doxastic account of clinical delusions, and is articulated in three sections. First, I consider the view that d...
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description | Here I reply to the main points raised by the commentators on the arguments put forward in my Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009). My response is aimed at defending a modest doxastic account of clinical delusions, and is articulated in three sections. First, I consider the view that delusions are in-between perceptual and doxastic states, defended by Jacob Hohwy and Vivek Rajan, and the view that delusions are failed attempts at believing or not-quite-beliefs, proposed by Eric Schwitzgebel and Maura Tumulty. Then, I address the relationship between the doxastic account of delusions and the role, nature, and prospects of folk psychology, which is discussed by Dominic Murphy, Keith Frankish, and Maura Tumulty in their contributions. In the final remarks, I turn to the continuity thesis and suggest that, although there are important differences between clinical delusions and non-pathological beliefs, these differences cannot be characterised satisfactorily in epistemic terms. |
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spelling | pubmed-33199022012-04-05 In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions Bortolotti, Lisa Neuroethics Original Paper Here I reply to the main points raised by the commentators on the arguments put forward in my Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (OUP, 2009). My response is aimed at defending a modest doxastic account of clinical delusions, and is articulated in three sections. First, I consider the view that delusions are in-between perceptual and doxastic states, defended by Jacob Hohwy and Vivek Rajan, and the view that delusions are failed attempts at believing or not-quite-beliefs, proposed by Eric Schwitzgebel and Maura Tumulty. Then, I address the relationship between the doxastic account of delusions and the role, nature, and prospects of folk psychology, which is discussed by Dominic Murphy, Keith Frankish, and Maura Tumulty in their contributions. In the final remarks, I turn to the continuity thesis and suggest that, although there are important differences between clinical delusions and non-pathological beliefs, these differences cannot be characterised satisfactorily in epistemic terms. Springer Netherlands 2011-06-11 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3319902/ /pubmed/22485124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9122-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Original Paper Bortolotti, Lisa In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title | In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title_full | In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title_fullStr | In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title_full_unstemmed | In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title_short | In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions |
title_sort | in defence of modest doxasticism about delusions |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3319902/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22485124 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12152-011-9122-8 |
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