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Dub, Richard. Delusions, acceptances, and cognitive feelings. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3DF6P8F

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TitleDelusions, acceptances, and cognitive feelings
NameDub, Richard (author); McLaughlin, Brian (chair); Egan, Andy (internal member); Stich, Stephen (internal member); Sass, Louis (outside member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - New Brunswick
Date Created2013
Other Date2013-10 (degree)
SubjectPhilosophy, Delusions, Psychology, Pathological
Extentix, 174 p. : ill.
DescriptionPsychopathological delusions, such as the Capgras delusion, the Cotard delusion, and the florid delusions that accompany schizophrenia, have a number of features that are curiously difficult to explain. Delusions are resistant to counterevidence and impervious to counterargument. They are theoretically, affectively, and behaviorally circumscribed; delusional individuals tend not to act on their delusions or draw appropriate inferences from the content of their delusions. Delusional individuals are occasionally able to distinguish their delusions from other beliefs, sometimes speaking of their "delusional reality." I argue that these features support non-doxasticism about delusions. Non-doxasticism is the thesis that, contrary to appearances, delusions are not beliefs at all. After developing the prospects for non-doxasticism, I offer a novel non-doxasticist cognitive model. Delusions are pathological acceptances that are caused by powerful and aberrant cognitive feelings.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
NoteIncludes vita
Noteby Richard Dub
Genretheses, ETD doctoral
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3DF6P8F
Languageeng
CollectionGraduate School - New Brunswick Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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