Philosophical Psychopathology Philosophy without Thought Experiments
This book uses rare pathologies to inform questions on topics such as consciousness and rationality. Rather than trying to answer these by inventing far-fetched scenario or 'thought experiments', it is better to utilize a rich but under-used clinical reso
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Philosophical Psychopathology Philosophy without Thought Experiments Garry Young Nottingham Trent University, UK
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Contents List of Figures
vi
1 Introduction
1
Part I The Role of Consciousness in Intentional Action 2
Philosophical Issue 1: Conscious Inessentialism
11
3
Blindsight and Other Visuomotor Pathologies
25
4
Philosophical Issue 2: What Makes an Action Intentional?
42
5
Anarchic Hand
57
6
Alien Control
74
7
Philosophical Issue 2 Revisited: The Conscious Decision to Act and Free Will
91
Part II
Thought, Subjectivity and Rationality
8
Philosophical Issue 3: What Makes a Thought My Thought?
101
9
Thought Insertion
112
10
Philosophical Issue 4: What Is It to Be Rational?
126
11
The Capgras Delusion
136
12
The Cotard Delusion
150
Part III Knowledge How and Epistemological Reduction 13 14
Philosophical Issue 5: Ryle’s Dichotomy and the Intellectualist Challenge
161
Visuomotor Pathologies Revisited
173
Epilogue
18
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