Brain fiction: self-deception and the riddle of confabulation
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| Series: | Philosophical psychopathology
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | VI, 289 S. Ill. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0262582716 9780262582711 0262083388 9780262083386 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 What Is Confabulation? 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Confabulation Syndromes 7
1.3 Features of Confabulation 15
1.4 Three Concepts of Confabulation 19
1.5 Mirror Image Syndromes 21
1.6 Conclusion: Setting the Problem of Confabulation 22
2 Philosophy and Neuroscience 25
2.1 The Growth of Neuroscience 25
2.2 Principles of Brain Structure and Function 31
2.3 The Limbic and Autonomic Systems 36
2.4 Philosophy s Role 37
2.5 Approach of This Book 40
3 Confabulation and Memory 43
3.1 Fictional Autobiographies 43
3.2 The Brain s Memory Systems 46
3.3 Korsakoff s Syndrome 49
3.4 Aneurysms of the Anterior Communicating Artery 55
3.5 Frontal Theories of Confabulation 60
3.6 Separating Amnesia and Confabulation 65
3.7 False Memories 66
3.8 Conclusion 67
4 Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators 71
4.1 Unhappy Family: The Orbitofrontal Syndromes 71
4.2 Symptoms of Orbitofrontal Damage 74
4.3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Orbitofrontal Cortex 82
4.4 Sociopathy 90
4.5 Lying and the Skin Conductance Response 93
4.6 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a Mirror Image Syndrome 97
4.7 Conclusion 99
5 Mind Reading and Misidentification 101
5.1 Knowledge of Others Minds 101
5.2 Mind Reading Systems 104
5.3 Misidentification Syndromes 114
5.4 A Mind Reading Theory of Misidentification 122
5.5 Conclusion 133
vi Contents
6 Unawareness and Denial of Illness 135
6.1 Denial 135
6.2 Theories of Anosognosia 140
6.3 The Neuroscience of Denial 143
6.4 Denial of Blindness 145
6.5 Anosognosia and the Other Confabulation Syndromes 147
6.6 Conclusion 151
7 The Two Brains 153
7.1 Confabulations by Split Brain Patients 153
7.2 Hemispheric Differences 155
7.3 Anatomy of the Cerebral Commissures 158
7.4 Lateral Theories of Confabulation 160
7.5 Evaluating the Lateral Theories 166
7.6 Other Confabulations about Mental States and Intentions 170
7.7 Conclusion 176
8 Confabulation and Knowledge 177
8.1 Confabulation as an Epistemic Phenomenon 177
8.2 The Neuroscience of Confabulation 179
8.3 Creation and Checking of Mental Representations 181
8.4 Defining Confabulation 187
8.5 Other Candidate Criteria and Conceptions 198
8.6 Epistemic Features of Confabulation 203
8.7 Knowing That We Do Not Know 209
8.8 Conclusion 211
9 Self Deception 213
9.1 Confabulation: Clues to Self Deception 213
9.2 Deception and Lying 218
9.3 What Is Self Deception? 221
9.4 The Maintenance of Self Deceptive Beliefs 226
9.5 Questions about Self Deception 228
9.6 Self Deception and Mind Reading 233
9.7 The Neuroscience of Self Deception 234
9.8 Conclusion 236
10 Epilogue: Our Nature 239
10.1 The Meaning of Confabulation 239
10.2 Further Questions 241
References 245
Name Index 277
Subject Index 283
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Contents
Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
1 What Is Confabulation? 1
1.1 Introduction 1
1.2 Confabulation Syndromes 7
1.3 Features of Confabulation 15
1.4 Three Concepts of Confabulation 19
1.5 Mirror Image Syndromes 21
1.6 Conclusion: Setting the Problem of Confabulation 22
2 Philosophy and Neuroscience 25
2.1 The Growth of Neuroscience 25
2.2 Principles of Brain Structure and Function 31
2.3 The Limbic and Autonomic Systems 36
2.4 Philosophy's Role 37
2.5 Approach of This Book 40
3 Confabulation and Memory 43
3.1 Fictional Autobiographies 43
3.2 The Brain's Memory Systems 46
3.3 Korsakoff's Syndrome 49
3.4 Aneurysms of the Anterior Communicating Artery 55
3.5 Frontal Theories of Confabulation 60
3.6 Separating Amnesia and Confabulation 65
3.7 False Memories 66
3.8 Conclusion 67
4 Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators 71
4.1 Unhappy Family: The Orbitofrontal Syndromes 71
4.2 Symptoms of Orbitofrontal Damage 74
4.3 Anatomy and Physiology of the Orbitofrontal Cortex 82
4.4 Sociopathy 90
4.5 Lying and the Skin Conductance Response 93
4.6 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder as a Mirror Image Syndrome 97
4.7 Conclusion 99
5 Mind Reading and Misidentification 101
5.1 Knowledge of Others'Minds 101
5.2 Mind Reading Systems 104
5.3 Misidentification Syndromes 114
5.4 A Mind Reading Theory of Misidentification 122
5.5 Conclusion 133
vi Contents
6 Unawareness and Denial of Illness 135
6.1 Denial 135
6.2 Theories of Anosognosia 140
6.3 The Neuroscience of Denial 143
6.4 Denial of Blindness 145
6.5 Anosognosia and the Other Confabulation Syndromes 147
6.6 Conclusion 151
7 The Two Brains 153
7.1 Confabulations by Split Brain Patients 153
7.2 Hemispheric Differences 155
7.3 Anatomy of the Cerebral Commissures 158
7.4 Lateral Theories of Confabulation 160
7.5 Evaluating the Lateral Theories 166
7.6 Other Confabulations about Mental States and Intentions 170
7.7 Conclusion 176
8 Confabulation and Knowledge 177
8.1 Confabulation as an Epistemic Phenomenon 177
8.2 The Neuroscience of Confabulation 179
8.3 Creation and Checking of Mental Representations 181
8.4 Defining Confabulation 187
8.5 Other Candidate Criteria and Conceptions 198
8.6 Epistemic Features of Confabulation 203
8.7 Knowing That We Do Not Know 209
8.8 Conclusion 211
9 Self Deception 213
9.1 Confabulation: Clues to Self Deception 213
9.2 Deception and Lying 218
9.3 What Is Self Deception? 221
9.4 The Maintenance of Self Deceptive Beliefs 226
9.5 Questions about Self Deception 228
9.6 Self Deception and Mind Reading 233
9.7 The Neuroscience of Self Deception 234
9.8 Conclusion 236
10 Epilogue: Our Nature 239
10.1 The Meaning of Confabulation 239
10.2 Further Questions 241
References 245
Name Index 277
Subject Index 283 |
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