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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion, and seeks to get clearer on the nature of belief and imagination, the ways in which they relate to one another, and how they might be integrated into accounts of delusional belief formation.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors 1: Ema Sullivan-Bissett: Introduction PART I: Lessons from Delusion on Belief and Imagination 2: Kengo Miyazono: Delusion and Self-Knowledge 3: Amy Kind: Contrast or Continuum? The Case of Belief and Imagination 4: Philip R. Corlett: Imagination, Agency, and Predictive Processing PART II: Belief and Imagination in the Wild 5: Anna Ichino: Religious Imaginings 6: Michael Omoge: On the Place of Imagination in the Architecture of the Mind 7: Neil Levy: Believing in Stories: Delusions, Superstitions, Conspiracy Theories, and Other Fairy Tales PART III: Delusional Experience 8: Garry Young: The Capgras Delusion: An Interactionist Approach Revisited 9: Philip Gerrans: Cotard Syndrome: The Experience of Inexistence 10: Douglas Lavin and Lucy O'Brien: Delusions and Everyday Life PART IV: Delusions, Belief, and Evidence 11: Sophie Archer: Why Do You Believe That? Delusion and Epistemic Reasons 12: Nicholas Furl, Max Coltheart, and Ryan McKay: o The Paradox of Delusions: Are Deluded Individuals Resistant to Evidence? 13: Paul Noordhof: Irrationality and the Failures of Consciousness Index
