Title |
A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification
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Published in |
Review of Philosophy and Psychology, April 2015
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DOI | 10.1007/s13164-015-0260-5 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Sam Wilkinson |
Abstract |
I suggest that we can think of delusional misidentification in terms of systematic errors in the management of mental files. I begin by sketching the orthodox "bottom-up" aetiology of delusional misidentification. I suggest that the orthodox aetiology can be given a descriptivist or a singularist interpretation. I present three cases that a descriptivist interpretation needs to account for. I then introduce a singularist approach, one that is based on mental files, and show how it opens the way for different and potentially more plausible accounts of these three cases. I reflect on how this mental files approach can be viewed either as a supplement to the orthodox aetiology, or as suggesting an altogether different aetiology. I end by addressing a concern surrounding the explanatory power of mental files. |
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