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‘Nobody Makes it Alone’: Towards a Relational View of Resilience (edited book)Routledge. 2023.This chapter argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the limits of the mainstream individualistic notion of resilience and, in light of these limits, it advances a new, relational notion of the concept of resilience that contributes to the individuals’ well-being and takes into consideration the role of systemic inequality. The first half of the paper argues that the individualistic notion is flawed in two ways: i) it can foster ill-being because it is cognitively taxing, and ii) it discou…Read more
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Double bookkeeping in delusions: Explaining the gap between saying and doingIn Jesús H. Aguilar, Andrei A. Buckareff & Keith Frankish (eds.), New waves in philosophy of action, Palgrave-macmillan. pp. 237--256. 2010.In this chapter I defend the doxastic account of delusions and offer some reasons to believe that the double-bookkeeping argument against doxasticism (delusions are not beliefs because they do not drive action) should be resisted.
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The Role of Unconscious Inference in Models of Delusion FormationIn Anders Nes & Timothy Hoo Wai Chan (eds.), Inference and Consciousness, Routledge. pp. 74-97. 2019.In this chapter we discuss the role of conscious and unconscious inference in theories of delusion formation. Two competing accounts aim to shed light on the formation of delusions: according to explanationism, the delusional belief is offered as an explanation for anomalous experience; according to the endorsement theory, the delusional belief is an acknowledgement that the anomalous experience is veridical. Whereas explanationists argue that the delusional belief is inferred from experience, e…Read more
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What Makes a Belief Delusional?In I. McCarthy, K. Sellevold & O. Smith (eds.), Cognitive Confusions, Legenda. 2016.
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Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Psychiatry and Psychopathology |
Philosophy of Psychology |
Philosophy of Mind |
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