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Social epistemological conception of delusion
| Title: | Social epistemological conception of delusion |
| Authors: | Miyazono, Kengo Browse this author | | Salice, Alessandro Browse this author |
| Keywords: | Delusion | | Schizophrenia | | Testimony | | Social epistemology | | Group identification |
| Issue Date: | 17-Sep-2020 |
| Publisher: | Springer |
| Journal Title: | Synthese |
| Volume: | 199 |
| Start Page: | 1831 |
| End Page: | 1851 |
| Publisher DOI: | 10.1007/s11229-020-02863-1 |
| Abstract: | The dominant conception of delusion in psychiatry (in textbooks, research papers, diagnostic manuals, etc.) is predominantly epistemic. Delusions are almost always characterized in terms of their epistemic defects, i.e., defects with respect to evidence, reasoning, judgment, etc. However, there is an individualistic bias in the epistemic conception; the alleged epistemic defects and abnormalities in delusions relate to individualistic epistemic processes rather than social epistemic processes. We endorse the social epistemological turn in recent philosophical epistemology, and claim that a corresponding turn is needed in the study of delusions. It is a turn from the (purely) individualistic conception, which characterizes delusions only by individualistic epistemic defects and abnormalities, to the (partially) social epistemic conception, which characterizes delusions by individualistic as well as social epistemic defects and abnormalities. This paper is intended as an initial step toward such a social epistemological turn. In particular, we will develop a new model of the development of delusions according to which testimonial abnormalities, including testimonial isolation and testimonial discount, are a causal factor in the development of delusions. |
| Type: | article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2115/82727 |
| Appears in Collections: | 文学院・文学研究院 (Graduate School of Humanities and Human Sciences / Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences) > 雑誌発表論文等 (Peer-reviewed Journal Articles, etc)
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