Mini Socrates asks questions about delusions
Is it normal to be delusional? @emas-b.bsky.social launches our 2026 series of Philosophy workshops at @winterbournehouse.bsky.social this February! Ticket is free and includes access to the Garden. Thanks @triphilosophy.bsky.social for supporting this initiative #philsky #philosophyforeveryone
Very happy day! Ellie Palafox-Harris passed her viva with no corrections! She wrote a great thesis on #epistemicinjustice and delusions #philsky Proud supervisors @emas-b.bsky.social and I are delighted 😀 Here is an open access paper by Ellie: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
My copy of The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion by @emas-b.bsky.social with chapters by @rritunnano.bsky.social @lisabortolotti.bsky.social @philcorlett.bsky.social @psychunseen.bsky.social (me) & others has arrived!
30 years ago I loved reading books like this; now I helped write one!
We agree! In the paper we argue that neither conspiracy beliefs nor monothematic delusions are appropriately characterised as pathologies of belief.
Thank you Lisa. Any love for the cover to be shared with you since you helped me choose it!
I’d like to think so! Upper level undergraduate/graduate course perhaps, as a guide to further reading (I think and hope I’ve been reasonably comprehensive in capturing the various debates surveyed).
Carolina, this is extremely generous coming from someone whose own work exemplifies those properties! Thank you!
Many thanks to @keithfrankish.bsky.social for the invitation and support, and to those in the intersection of 'gave me very helpful comments' and 'on bluesky': @kmurphyhollies.bsky.social, @jtsuth.bsky.social, and @samljwilkinson.bsky.social.
My Cambridge Element on Irrationality is out, and open access for a month! In it I discuss akrasia, conspiracy beliefs, self-deception, delusion, and implicit bias. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Very pleased to see published the fruits of mine and Anna Ichino's co-writing labour! We argue there are no grounds for the difference in approaches to pathology when it comes to beliefs in conspiracy theories and monothematic delusions. Open access! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Are delusions normal explanations of anomalous experiences?🤔
Delighted to share my newly published reply to @emas-b.bsky.social and @paulnoordhof.bsky.social’s thought-provoking commentary on my 2023 paper. In this exchange, I challenge, while they defend, a positive answer to this question. ✨
Thank you Chenwei, very kind! Btw, I enjoyed your response to mine and @paulnoordhof.bsky.social's commentary!
I have a new paper on delusion which I'm very pleased to see published today, and open access too. I argue that monothematic delusions are best understood as beliefs formed in tricky (read: Millikanian abNormal) conditions, rather than as malfunctions of belief. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My tremendous colleague and friend Merten Reglitz's book is published today. Bonus features: (1) Published on #WorldPhilosophyDay, and (2) in time for Christmas! www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
New paper! Biases are among the cognitive antecedents of delusions and conspiracy theories. Does this mean that when we have delusions and conspiracy theories we should be excluded from shared epistemic projects? (Spoiler: no) link.springer.com/ar... open access! #philsky
If you’ve got this far please consider ordering it into your institutional libraries, after all, it is an ‘outstanding resource for both students and researchers’ according to the blurb. www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
Thank you to Paul Noordhof (not here yet) for stepping in late in the process and writing an additional chapter. Originally slated to write the chapter on Doxasticism, he also wrote the chapter on Non-doxasticism – the two pair beautifully!
Special thanks to @lisabortolotti.bsky.social for her advice back at proposal stage on topics to include (although any omissions are mine). There are some topics that didn’t make it due to circumstances beyond anyone’s control, but I hope that the end result is nevertheless pretty comprehensive.
I am tremendously grateful to all 47 contributors who, without exception, made the various stages of pulling this together as easy as it could have been.
There was absolutely a need for a resource like this, and it felt like a huge responsibility to be the one to oversee its genesis. Thanks to Tony Bruce at Routledge (not here yet!) for trusting the task to me, his advice along the way, and for allowing me to choose a new cover quite late in the day.
For my first post here I'm delighted to share, on publication day, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Delusion! 🧵 www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
As someone who moved over today, thank you!!!
