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Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy

Eugen Fischer
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20th Century Analytic Philosophy
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Autonomous Cognitive Processes
Belief Bias
Belief Bias Effects
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cognitive linguistics
cognitive psychology philosophy
Cognitive Reconstruction
Common Sense Conviction
Conceptual Metaphor
conceptual metaphor theory
Delusional Beliefs
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Immaterial Sense Data
Immediately Perceived
language analysis philosophy
Meta-cognitive Insight
mind body problem
Non-intentional Reasoning
Ordinary Language Analysis
Phenomenal Principle
Philosophical Delusions
Philosophical Intuitions
Philosophical Pictures
philosophical problem genesis case studies
Philosophical Refl Ection
Philosophical Refl Ections
Philosophical Therapy
Physical Extension
Pictorial Process
Positive Sublimation
Round Coin
Strong Belief Bias
Therapeutic Philosophy
Wittgenstein

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415849906
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Apr 2013
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
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Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. The book vindicates this currently much-discussed project by reconstructing the genesis of important philosophical problems: With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind and perception, and on thinkers including Locke, Berkeley and Ayer, the book demonstrates how such autonomous habits of thought systematically generate unsound intuitions and philosophical delusions, whose clash with reality, or among each other, gives rise to ill-motivated but maddening problems. The book re-examines models of therapeutic philosophy, due to Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and develops an approach that may let us overcome philosophical delusions and the problems they engender. In this way, the book explains where and why therapy in called for in philosophy, and develops techniques to carry it out.
About Eugen Fischer
Eugen Fischer, BPhil, DPhil (Oxford), is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of Linguistic Creativity: Exercises in Philosophical Therapy (2000) and has co-edited Wittgenstein at Work: Method in the Philosophical Investigations (Routledge 2004, paperback 2010).

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