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Delusions, unusual experiences and rubber hands
Speaker : Jakob Hohwy, Philosophy, Monash University.
Date : Tuesday 18th of May 2010, 4:00PM until 5:30PM
Location : C5C 498 (main seminar room, MACCS), Macquarie University.
Abstract: Do delusions arise as the result of just having unusual
experiences or is a further reasoning deficit or bias necessary too?
In a recent study of the rubber hand illusion our participants
reported highly unusual experiences, not unlike the experiences
hypothesised to be involved in delusion formation. I discuss the
extent to which this study can be used as a model of delusion
formation, and I use it to illustrate some of the issues surrounding
the question whether one or two factors are needed to explain delusion
formation. I try motivate why one might want to defend a one factor
view, and discuss the considerable explanatory burden such an account
would incur.
Enquiries: Robyn Langdon, [email protected]
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Professor John Sutton
Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science
Macquarie University, Sydney,
NSW 2109, Australia
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +61 (0)2 9850 4132
http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/jsutton/
ASCS09: Proceedings of 9th conference, Australasian Society for
Cognitive Science
http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/ascs09
Memory Studies (Sage journal): http://mss.sagepub.com/
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