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International Studies in Phenomenology and Philosophy

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Disturbed consciousness

New essays on psychopathology and theories of consciousness

edited byRocco Gennaro

Abstract

In Disturbed consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors--some of them discussing or defending their own theoretical work--consider not only how a theory of consciousness can account for a specific psychopathological condition but also how the characteristics of a psychopathology might challenge such a theory. Thus one essay defends the higher-order thought (HOT) theory of consciousness against the charge that it cannot account for somatoparaphrenia (a delusion in which one denies ownership of a limb). Another essay argues that various attempts to explain away such anomalies within subjective theories of consciousness fail. Other essays consider such topics as the application of a model of unified consciousness to cases of brain bisection and dissociative identity disorder; prefrontal and parietal underconnectivity in autism and other psychopathologies; self-deception and the self-model theory of subjectivity; schizophrenia and the vehicle theory of consciousness; and a shift in emphasis away from an internal (or brainbound) approach to psychopathology to an interactive one.

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Jaspers' dilemma

The psychopathological challenge to subjectivity theories of consciousness

Alexandre BillonUriah Kriegel

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Publication details

Publisher: MIT Press

Place: Cambridge, Mass.

Year: 2015

Pages: 376, vi

Series: Philosophical Psychopathology

ISBN (hardback): 9780262330213

Full citation:

Gennaro Rocco (2015) Disturbed consciousness: New essays on psychopathology and theories of consciousness. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press