Brain fiction : self-deception and the riddle of confabulation /
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| Author / Creator: | Hirstein, William. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005. |
| Description: | vi, 289 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Philosophical psychopathology. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5545674 |
Table of Contents:
- Series Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- 1. What Is Confabulation?
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Confabulation Syndromes
- 1.3. Features of Confabulation
- 1.4. Three Concepts of Confabulation
- 1.5. Mirror-Image Syndromes
- 1.6. Conclusion: Setting the Problem of Confabulation
- 2. Philosophy and Neuroscience
- 2.1. The Growth of Neuroscience
- 2.2. Principles of Brain Structure and Function
- 2.3. The Limbic and Autonomic Systems
- 2.4. Philosophy's Role
- 2.5. Approach of This Book
- 3. Confabulation and Memory
- 3.1. Fictional Autobiographies
- 3.2. The Brain's Memory Systems
- 3.3. Korsakoff's Syndrome
- 3.4. Aneurysms of the Anterior Communicating Artery
- 3.5. Frontal Theories of Confabulation
- 3.6. Separating Amnesia and Confabulation
- 3.7. False Memories
- 3.8. Conclusion
- 4. Liars, Sociopaths, and Confabulators
- 4.1. Unhappy Family: The Orbitofrontal Syndromes
- 4.2. Symptoms of Orbitofrontal Damage
- 4.3. Anatomy and Physiology of the Orbitofrontal Cortex
- 4.4. Sociopathy
- 4.5. Lying and the Skin-Conductance Response
- 4.6. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder as a Mirror-Image Syndrome
- 4.7. Conclusion
- 5. Mind Reading and Misidentification
- 5.1. Knowledge of Others' Minds
- 5.2. Mind-Reading Systems
- 5.3. Misidentification Syndromes
- 5.4. A Mind-Reading Theory of Misidentification
- 5.5. Conclusion
- 6. Unawareness and Denial of Illness
- 6.1. Denial
- 6.2. Theories of Anosognosia
- 6.3. The Neuroscience of Denial
- 6.4. Denial of Blindness
- 6.5. Anosognosia and the Other Confabulation Syndromes
- 6.6. Conclusion
- 7. The Two Brains
- 7.1. Confabulations by Split-Brain Patients
- 7.2. Hemispheric Differences
- 7.3. Anatomy of the Cerebral Commissures
- 7.4. Lateral Theories of Confabulation
- 7.5. Evaluating the Lateral Theories
- 7.6. Other Confabulations about Mental States and Intentions
- 7.7. Conclusion
- 8. Confabulation and Knowledge
- 8.1. Confabulation as an Epistemic Phenomenon
- 8.2. The Neuroscience of Confabulation
- 8.3. Creation and Checking of Mental Representations
- 8.4. Defining Confabulation
- 8.5. Other Candidate Criteria and Conceptions
- 8.6. Epistemic Features of Confabulation
- 8.7. Knowing That We Do Not Know
- 8.8. Conclusion
- 9. Self-Deception
- 9.1. Confabulation: Clues to Self-Deception
- 9.2. Deception and Lying
- 9.3. What Is Self-Deception?
- 9.4. The Maintenance of Self-Deceptive Beliefs
- 9.5. Questions about Self-Deception
- 9.6. Self-Deception and Mind Reading
- 9.7. The Neuroscience of Self-Deception
- 9.8. Conclusion
- 10. Epilogue: Our Nature
- 10.1. The Meaning of Confabulation
- 10.2. Further Questions
- References
- Name Index
- Subject Index
