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The Social Roots of Delusions
The Social Roots of Delusions
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Author(s): Miyazono, Kengo
Williams, Daniel
ISBN No.: 9780192874177
Pages: 336
Year: 202604
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 190.98
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Status: Available (Forthcoming)

Daniel Williams is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex, UK. He works primarily in the philosophy of mind, social epistemology, and the philosophy of social science, with research interests in belief, rationality, misinformation, conspiracy theories, and moral psychology. His recent publications include The Case for Partisan Motivated Reasoning (2023), The Marketplace of Rationalizations (2023), and Signalling, Commitment, and Strategic Absurdities (2022). He also writes a widely read Substack newsletter titled 'Conspicuous Cognition'. Sam Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Exeter, UK. He specialises in philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. His recent publications include Philosophy of Psychiatry: A Contemporary Introduction (2023), Towards a Unified, yet Pluralistic, Account of Delusional Misidentification (2025, with Norman Poole), The Personal and the Subpersonal: Three Desiderata and a Pragmatist Proposal (2025, with Marko Jurjako), Status and Constitution in Psychiatric Classification (2025, with Tom Roberts), and Expressivism About Delusion Attribution (2020). Kengo Miyazono is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hokkaido University, Japan.


His main research areas are philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of psychiatry. His recent publications include Philosophy of Psychology: An Introduction (2021, with Lisa Bortolotti), Delusions and Beliefs: A Philosophical Inquiry (2018), Social Epistemological Conception of Delusion (2021, with Alessandro Salice), The Ethics of Delusional Belief (2016, with Lisa Bortolotti), and Imagination as a Generative Source of Justification (2023, with Uku Tooming). He is an area editor of Ergo and an associate editor of Philosophical Psychology.


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