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Imperfect Cognitions: Joint Session 2015: Open Session on Irrationality
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Thursday, 13 August 2015. Joint Session 2015: Open Session on Irrationality. In this post I summarise the four papers presented in the Irrationality session of the Open Sessions at the 89th Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association. Held at the University of Warwick (pictured above) on 10th-12th July this year. Birmingham) gave my paper ‘U...
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Imperfect Cognitions: The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Tuesday, 9 September 2014. The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. In this post, I will sketch some ideas from a paper that I have been working on with Vaughan Bell. Why might this shift in focus, away from the auditory, be warranted? There are a number of reasons for this, but here I mention just two. Trends in Cognitive Science. 4, 29–34. Bates...
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Doing things differently – Rights for Life
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Human Rights and Mental Health Recovery. Next Steps-After the 2015 Event. How can doing things differently promote rights, support recovery and tackle stigma? This showcase explores how two organisations are using different methods to improve the lives of people with mental health conditions. The project is based around the café in Lanark, where they create their famous ‘Depressed Cakes’ which have been used in their Bun and Blether project which tackles stigma in workplaces. The Hope Cafe founder an...
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MentalHealthProfessional_CombatingFibromyalgia | Mental Health Professional Combating Fibromyalgia
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Mental Health Professional Combating Fibromyalgia. Working in mental health while experiencing fibromyalgia. Author Archives: MentalHealthProfessional CombatingFibromyalgia. Sandra Gives The Game Away: Jobcentres Given Sheriff’s Stars For Hitting Benefit Sanction Targets. Sandra Lambert, manager of 149 Jobcentres and self-styled lifestyle guru. Has spent much of the last few days frantically blocking people on twitter who have been taking the piss out of the cringemaking motivational advice. The red, blu...
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Imperfect Cognitions: The Rise of Delusions in Philosophy
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Sunday, 13 October 2013. The Rise of Delusions in Philosophy. Recently I had the pleasure to update the Delusion entry. In the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. I wrote the original version of it in 2009 and so much has happened in four years that I had to select topics or the entry would have become far too long. Among the new debates, there has been an interesting ...
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Imperfect Cognitions: Authorship and Control over Thoughts
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Tuesday, 11 August 2015. Authorship and Control over Thoughts. This post is by Gottfried Vosgerau. Pictured above), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dusseldorf. Gottfried's research interests are in the philosophy and metaphysics of mind, neurophilosophy, and cognitive science. Here he summarises his recent paper, co-authored with Martin Voss. In this post, ...
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Imperfect Cognitions: Truths that We Would Rather not Know
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Tuesday, 4 August 2015. Truths that We Would Rather not Know. This post is by Kevin Lynch,. Published in Philosophical Studies. What is willful ignorance? The suggestion here is that Speer was willfully ignorance of the fact that inmates were being exterminated in the concentration camps. This looks like an authentic example of willful ignorance, but what would a de...
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Imperfect Cognitions: Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. Thursday, 19 February 2015. Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis. In this post, Jacqueline Gunn. Present their recent book Borderline Personality Disorder: New Perspectives on a Stigmatizing and Overused Diagnosis. Labels: borderline personality disorder. 17 April 2015 at 02:57. 23 April 2015 at 16:39. I agree, of co...
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Imperfect Cognitions: Blog History
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Blog on delusional beliefs, distorted memories, confabulatory explanations, unrealistically optimistic predictions, and implicit biases. The blog was founded by Lisa Bortolotti. In May 2013, after receiving the happy news that she had been awarded an AHRC Fellowship for a project entitled " The Epistemic Innocence of Imperfect Cognitions. Since October 2013, Ema Sullivan-Bissett. PhD student on Project PERFECT, also joined the blog editorial team and she oversaw a new blog feature, interviews with expert...
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