title: Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs (International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry)
author:  Lisa Bortolotti 
description: <br />Lisa Bortolotti is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Birmingham (UK). Her main research interests are in the philosophy of the cognitive sciences and in the intersection between philosophy of mind and ethics. She has published a number of articles on belief ascription, rationality and delusions in journals such as Mind &amp; Language and Philosophical Psychology. She is the author of An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science for Polity Press, the editor of Philosophy and Happiness for Palgrave and the co-editor (with M.R. Broome) of Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives for Oxford University Press.<br />
zlib_text: Alternative Perspectives  
  on Psychiatric Validation
   
  
  International Perspectives in Philosophy and Psychiatry
  Series editors: Bill (K. W. M.) Fulford, Lisa Bortolotti, Matthew Broome, 
  Katherine Morris, John Z. Sadler, and Giovanni Stanghellini
  volumes in the series:
  Portrait of the Psychiatrist as a Young Man
  The Early Writing and Work of R. D. Laing, 
  1927–1960
  Beveridge
  Mind, Meaning, and Mental Disorder 2e
  Bolton and Hill
  What is Mental Disorder?
  Bolton
  Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs
  Bortolotti
  Postpsychiatry
  Bracken and Thomas
  Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and the A-Rational 
  Mind
  Brakel
  Unconscious Knowing and Other Essays in 
  Psycho-Philosophical Analysis
  Brakel
  Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience
  Broome and Bortolotti (eds)
  Free Will and Responsibility
  A Guide for Practitioners
  Callender
  Reconceiving Schizophrenia
  Chung, Fulford, and Graham (eds)
  Darwin and Psychiatry
  De Block and Adriaens (eds)
  Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Psychiatry
  Fulford, Davies, Gipps, Graha