Dear all, The next meeting of the Moral Sciences Club will be held next Tuesday (1st December). We are delighted to welcome Lisa Bortolotti (Birmingham), who will be giving a talk entitled 'Delusion and Identity'. The abstract for the talk is as follows:
In this paper I ask whether there is a definition of delusion which encompasses how the word ‘delusion’ is used in lay talk, where delusions are implausible or mistaken beliefs, and how ‘delusion’ is used in psychiatry, where delusions are symptoms of mental disorders. Using a variety of examples, I show that often talked-about features of delusions—such as being false, bizarre, or pathological—should not be regarded as defining features because they are not necessary conditions for a belief to be delusional. Next, I propose a unified notion of delusion as a belief that is irresponsive to counter-evidence and central to a person’s identity. The meeting will be held from 2:30 until 4:15 on Zoom: https:/ <https://zoom.us/j/98343588455>/zoom.us/j/98343588455 <https://zoom.us/j/98343588455> (Meeting ID: 983 4358 8455). Best wishes, Christopher, Emma, Sofía and Wouter. -- Christopher Benzenberg, Emma Curran, Sofía Meléndez-Gutiérrez and Wouter Cohen Acting Secretaries of the Moral Sciences Club Faculty of Philosophy University of Cambridge [email protected] <[email protected]> http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/seminars-phil/seminars-msc _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: https://lists.cam.ac.uk/pipermail/phil-events/ Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
