Delusion and Self-Deception: Affective and Motivational Influences on Belief Formation

312 Pages·2008·2.34 MB·English

by  Tim Bayne

Delusion and
Self-Deception
Macquarie Monographs in Cognitive Science
General Editor: MAX COLTHEART
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Delusion and
Self-Deception
Affective and
Motivational Influences
on Belief Formation
edited by
Tim Bayne
and Jordi Fernández
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Delusion and self-deception : affective and motivational influences on belief formation
/ edited by Tim Bayne, Jordi Fernandez.
p. cm. -- (Macquarie monographs in cognitive science)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-84169-470-2 (alk. paper)
ISBN-10: 1-84169-470-3 (alk. paper)
1. Belief and doubt. 2. Delusions. 3. Self-deception. I. Bayne, Tim. II. Fernández,
Jordi.
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Editors ix
Contributors xi
1 Delusion and Self-Deception: Mapping the Terrain 1
Tim Bayne and Jordi Fernández
2 Passion, Reason, and Necessity: A Quantity-of-Processing View of
Motivated Reasoning 23
Peter H. Ditto
3 Self-Deception and Delusions 55
Alfred Mele
4 Delusion and Motivationally Biased Belief: Self-Deception in the
Two-Factor Framework 71
Martin Davies
5 Emotion, Cognition, and Belief: Findings From Cognitive
Neuroscience 87
Michael L. Spezio and Ralph Adolphs
6 Perception, Emotions, and Delusions: The Case of the Capgras
Delusion 1 07
Elisabeth Pacherie
7 From Phenomenology to Cognitive Architecture and Back 127
Philip Gerrans
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8 Monothematic Delusions and Existential Feelings 1 39
Brian P. McLaughlin
9 “Sleights of Mind”: Delusions and Self-Deception 1 65
Ryan McKay, Robyn Langdon, and Max Coltheart
10 Cognitive and Motivational Factors in Anosognosia 187
Anne M. Aimola Davies, Martin Davies, Jenni A. Ogden,
Michael Smithson, and Rebekah C. White
11 Self-Deception Without Thought Experiments 2 27
Neil Levy
12 Hysterical Conversion: A Mirror Image of Anosognosia? 2 43
Frédérique de Vignemont
13 Imagination, Delusion, and Self-Deception 2 63
Andy Egan
Author Index 281
Subject Index 289
Acknowledgments
This volume arose out of a workshop on delusion and self-deception held at
Macquarie University. In organizing this workshop we benefited from the assis-
tance of a number of institutions and individuals. Funding for the workshop
was provided by a Macquarie University Visiting Scholar Award, a Macquarie
University Research Fellowship (awarded to Jordi Fernández), the Macquarie
University Philosophy Department, and the Macquarie Center for Cognitive
Science (MACCS). We would like to thank John Sutton and Peter Menzies for
their advice in planning the workshop, Katie Webb for ensuring that the work-
shop ran so smoothly, Paul Dukes of Psychology Press for his editorial assistance
in producing this volume, and two referees for their very useful comments on a
draft of this volume.
Finally, we would like to thank Max Coltheart, both for his initial support for
the project and his help in seeing it through to completion.
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Editors
Tim Bayne is University Lecturer in Philosophy of Mind at the University of
Oxford and a fellow of St. Catherine’s College. He is completing a book on the
unity of consciousness and is an editor of the forthcoming Oxford Companion to
Consciousness.
Jordi Fernández is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Adelaide. He
works in philosophy of mind and epistemology. Recently he has been focusing on
the topics of self-knowledge and memory.
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