Delusions and Three Myths of Irrational Belief

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• Professor Lisa Bortolotti, Professor of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
• Thursday 18 October 2018, 12:30-13:30
• Seminar Room, Herchel Smith Building, Forvie Site..

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Professor Bortolotti writes:

My paper addresses the contribution that the delusion literature has made to the philosophy of belief. Three conclusions will be drawn: (1) a belief does not need to be epistemically rational to be used in the interpretation of behaviour; (2) a belief does not need to be epistemically rational to have significant psychological or epistemic benefits; (3) beliefs exhibiting the features of epistemic irrationality exemplified by delusions are not infrequent, and they are not an exception in a largely rational belief system. What we learn from the delusion literature is that there are complex relationships between rationality and interpretation, rationality and success, and rationality and knowledge.

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