Lisa My review of Damasio's "Self Comes to Mind" is out now in Cognitive Neuropsychiatry!
Lisa started following the work of Andrew Wright, University of Birmingham, School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion.
Lisa started following the work of Wlodek Rabinowicz, Lund University, Philosophy.
Lisa Symposia have now issued their calls for papers for this wonderful Turing conference in Birmingham in 2012: http://t.co/W3BNZU8l
Books
Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, Oxford University Press, 2009. Awarded the American Philosophical Association Book Prize 2011.
Synopsis available for download!
CONTENTS
Synopsis
1: The Background
2: Procedural Rationality and Belief Ascription
3: Epistemic Rationality and Belief Ascription
4: Agential Rationality and Belief Ascription
5: Beliefs and Self Knowledge
6: Conclusions
Bibliography and Reference List
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DownloadPhilosophy and Happiness
Edited collection, Palgrave Macmillan 2009
Contents and sample chapter available for download!
CONTENTS
Preface – Lisa Bortolotti
Part one: Happiness and the Meaningful Life
1. Happiness and Meaningfulness: Some Key Differences (T. Metz)
2. Happiness, Temporality, Meaning (J. Cottingham)
3. Tragic Joyfulness (P. Tabensky)
4. Shape and the Meaningfulness of Life (L. James)
5. Immortal Happiness (M. Quigley and J. Harris)
6. “I am well, apart from the fact that I have cancer”: Explaining Well-being within Illness (H. Carel)
7. Suffering in Happy Lives (M.W. Martin)
Part two: Happiness and the Mind.
8. Reflections on Positive Psychology (E. Duncan, I. Grazzani-Gavazzi and U. Kiran Subba)
9. Face Value. Perception and Knowledge of Others’ Happiness (E. Zamuner)
10. The Politics of Happiness: Subjective vs. Economic Measures as Measures of Social Well-being (E. Angner)
11. Happiness and Preference-Satisfaction (I. Law)
12. The Politics of the Self: Stability, Normativity and the Lives we can Live with Living (J. Lenman)
13. Happiness and Life Choices: Sartre on Desire, Deliberation and Action (J. Fernández)
14. The Reflective Life and Happiness (V. Tiberius)
References and Bibliography
Index
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Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives
Collection co-edited with Matthew Broome, International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry series, Oxford University Press 2009
Sample chapter available for download!
CONTENTS
Introduction - Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: An Overview (M.R. Broome and L. Bortolotti)
Psychiatry as Science
Chapter 1. Is Psychiatric Research Scientific? (R. Cooper)
Chapter 2. A Secret History of ICD and the Hidden Future of DSM. (K.W.M. Fulford and N. Sartorius)
Chapter 3. Delusion as a Natural Kind. (R. Samuels)
The Nature of Mental Illness
Chapter 4. Mental Illness is Indeed a Myth. (H. Pickard)
Chapter 5. Psychiatry and the Concept of Disease as Pathology. (D. Murphy)
Reconciling Paradigms
Chapter 6. On the Interface Problem in Philosophy and Psychiatry. (T. Thornton)
Chapter 7. What does Rationality Have to Do with Psychological Causation? Propositional attitudes as Mechanisms and as Control Variables. (J. Campbell)
Chapter 8. Mad Scientists or Unreliable Autobiographers? Dopamine Dysregulation and Delusion. (P. Gerrans)
Psychiatry and the Neurosciences
Chapter 9. When Time is Out of Joint: Schizophrenia and Functional Neuroimaging. (D. Lloyd)
Chapter 10. Philosophy and Cognitive-Affective Neurogenetics. (D. Stein)
Chapter 11. An Addictive Lesson: A Case Study in Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience. (L. Stephens and G. Graham)
Phenomenology and Scientific Explanation
Chapter 12. Understanding Existential Changes in Psychiatric Illness: The Indispensability of Phenomenology. (M. Ratcliffe)
Chapter 13. Delusional realities. (S. Gallagher)
Delusions and Cognition
Chapter 14. Delusions: a Two-Level Framework. (K. Frankish)
Chapter 15. Explaining Pathologies of Belief. (A.M. Aimola Davies and M. Davies)
Moral Psychology and Psychopathology
Chapter 16. Mental Time Travel, Agency and Responsibility. (J. Kennett and S. Matthews)
Chapter 17. Motivation, Depression and Character. (I. Law)
Conclusion: The Future of Scientific Psychiatry. (L. Bortolotti and M.R. Broome)
One of the best books of 2009 for the Guardian, according to Mary Warnock:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/22/books-of-the-year-2009.
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