The nature of delusion: An analysis of the contemporary philosophical debates

Paredes, Aline Aurora Maya (2017) The nature of delusion: An analysis of the contemporary philosophical debates. Doctoral thesis, University of Central Lancashire.

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The present thesis surveys different philosophical approaches to the nature of delusions: specifically, their ontology.
However, since none of the various theories of the nature of delusions succeeds, I argue that there must be something problematic about the form of the analyses commonly offered. My general conclusion is that one cannot characterize delusions without taking away what it is distinctive about them.


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