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  1. The Ant and the Grasshopper: Does Biased Cognition Compromise Agency in the Case of Delusions and Conspiracy Theories?

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  2. How we can improve young people experience of interactions with mental health professionals.

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  3. Which negative stereotypes are associated wirh people who hear voices and why are they harmful?

    Article • November 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  4. Revisiting delusions to demystify human agency: A response to critics

    Article • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, October 2024, Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  5. Understanding delusions to improve our mutual interactions: A précis of <i>"Why Delusions Matter"</i>

    Article • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, October 2024, Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  6. Implying implausibility and undermining versus accepting peoples’ experiences of suicidal ideation and self-harm in Emergency Department psychosocial assessments

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, August 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  7. Why We Should Be Curious about Each Other

    Article • Philosophies, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  8. Is it pathological to believe conspiracy theories?

    Article • Transcultural Psychiatry, August 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  9. Delusions across and beyond Diagnoses

    Article • May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  10. On the moral psychology of the pandemic agent

    Article • May 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  11. A Journey into the Mind

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, April 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  12. Why Delusions Matter

    Article • January 2023, Bloomsbury Academic

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  13. Challenges and achievements for Philosophical Psychology

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  14. Putting scientific realism into perspective

    Article • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, December 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  15. Sharing responsibility for conspiracy beliefs: The agency-in-context model

    Article • Resistances Journal of the Philosophy of History, December 2022, Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades desde America Latina

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  16. Are delusions pathological beliefs?

    Article • Asian Journal of Philosophy, July 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  17. Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance

    Article • Theory & Psychology, June 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  18. Debating Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Death in People with Psychiatric Disorders

    Article • Current Psychiatry Reports, June 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  19. The Epistemic Relevance of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

    Article • Philosophy Psychiatry &amp Psychology, June 2022, Project Muse

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  20. The appeal and challenges of an integrative approach to psychiatry

    Article • Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry, June 2022, FRACTAL EDITORA LTDA

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  21. Agency-First Epistemology of Psychedelics

    Article • Philosophy and the Mind Sciences, April 2022, Universitatsbibliothek der Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  22. Correction to: Invasion genetics of the Asian hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax in Southern Europe

    Article • Biological Invasions, March 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  23. Exceptionalism at the Time of covid-19: Where Nationalism Meets Irrationality

    Article • Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, January 2022, Brill

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  24. A newPhilosophical Psychology

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, November 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  25. Stories as evidence

    Article • Memory Mind & Media, October 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  26. Do delusions have and give meaning?

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  27. Threats to epistemic agency in young people with unusual experiences and beliefs

    Article • Synthese, March 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  28. Delusions in the two-factor theory

    Article • European journal of analytic philosophy, November 2020, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences University of Rijeka

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  29. Doctors without ‘Disorders’

    Article • Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, July 2020, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  30. Book review symposium: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Memory

    Article • Memory Studies, October 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  31. Is choice blindness a case of self-ignorance?

    Article • Synthese, September 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  32. Introduction: Philosophical Perspectives on Confabulation

    Article • Topoi, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  33. Instrumental rationality and suicide in schizophrenia: a case for rational suicide?

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, August 2019, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  34. The Power of Stories: Responsibility for the Use of Autobiographical Stories in Mental Health Debates

    Article • Diametros, June 2019, Acta Physica Polonica B Editorial Office

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  35. Are clinical delusions adaptive?

    Article • Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science, May 2019, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  36. Why (Some) Unrealistic Optimism is Permissible in Patient Decision Making

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, September 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  37. “Good” Biases: Does Doxastic Irrationality Benefit Individuals and Groups?

    Article • Revue philosophique de la France et de l étranger, August 2018, CAIRN

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  38. Commentary: What aspects of good practice in early interventions in psychosis can be codified in guidelines? – A commentary on Corsico et al. (2018)

    Article • Child and Adolescent Mental Health, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  39. Optimism, Agency, and Success

    Article • Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, May 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  40. T113. THE LINK BETWEEN BLUNTED AFFECT AND SUICIDE IN SCHIZOPHRENIA: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

    Article • Schizophrenia Bulletin, April 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  41. The epistemic innocence of clinical memory distortions

    Article • Mind & Language, February 2018, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  42. Can delusions play a protective role?

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  43. Epistemic innocence and the production of false memory beliefs

    Article • Philosophical Studies, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  44. Delusions in Context

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  45. The Bright Side of Memory Errors

    Article • The Philosophers Magazine, January 2018, Philosophy Documentation Center

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  46. Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Everyday Confabulation

    Article • Review of Philosophy and Psychology, October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  47. How can false or irrational beliefs be useful?

    Article • Philosophical Explorations, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  48. Unrealistic optimism – Its nature, causes and effects

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  49. What is unrealistic optimism?

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  50. Depressive delusions

    Article • Filosofia Unisinos, October 2016, UNISINOS - Universidade do Vale do Rio Dos Sinos

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  51. Philip Gerrans, The Measure of Madness: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Delusional Thought. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2014, 304 pp., £27.95 (hardback) ISBN: 978-0262027557

    Article • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, September 2016, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  52. Moral Preferences

    Article • Society, April 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  53. Recent Work on the Nature and Development of Delusions

    Article • Philosophy Compass, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  54. Article • Philosophy Compass, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  55. Epistemic Benefits of Elaborated and Systematized Delusions in Schizophrenia

    Article • The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, July 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  56. The Ethics of Delusional Belief

    Article • Erkenntnis, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  57. The epistemic innocence of motivated delusions

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  58. Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  59. Costs and benefits of realism and optimism

    Article • Current Opinion in Psychiatry, January 2015, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  60. Rationality, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy in Psychiatry

    Article • December 2014

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  61. Natural and para-natural kinds in psychiatry

    Article • November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  62. Taking the long view: an emerging framework for translational psychiatric science

    Article • World Psychiatry, June 2014, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  63. NikolajNottelmann (ed.), New Essays on Belief: Constitution, Content and Structure, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, xii + 258 pp., GBP 55 (Hardback), ISBN 9781137026514.

    Article • dialectica, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  64. The Causal Role Argument against Doxasticism about Delusions

    Article • Avant, January 2014, The Centre for Philosophical Research

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  65. Delusions and Responsibility for Action: Insights from the Breivik Case

    Article • Neuroethics, December 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  66. Rationality and Sanity

    Article • June 2013

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  67. Sentience, Moral Relevance of

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  68. The relative importance of undesirable truths

    Article • Medicine Health Care and Philosophy, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  69. Rationality and self-knowledge in delusion and confabulation: implications for autonomy as self-governance

    Article • April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  70. Affective Dimensions of the Phenomenon of Double Bookkeeping in Delusions

    Article • Emotion Review, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  71. Self comes to mind: Constructing the conscious brain

    Article • Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, March 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  72. Can we recreate delusions in the laboratory?

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  73. Does reflection lead to wise choices?

    Article • Philosophical Explorations, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  74. Précis of Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs

    Article • Neuroethics, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  75. In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions

    Article • Neuroethics, June 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  76. The right not to know: the case of psychiatric disorders

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2011, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  77. Psychiatric Classification and Diagnosis: Delusions and Confabulations

    Article • PARADIGMI, April 2011, Franco Angeli

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  78. Continuing Commentary: Shaking the Bedrock

    Article • Philosophy Psychiatry &amp Psychology, January 2011, Project Muse

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  79. Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness: A Case Study

    Article • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, March 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  80. What's wrong with ‘mental’ disorders?

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  81. Natural versus Assisted Reproduction: In Search of Fairness

    Article • Studies in Ethics Law and Technology, January 2010, De Gruyter

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  82. Agency, Life Extension, and the Meaning of Life

    Article • The Monist, January 2010, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  83. ‘Faultless’ ignorance: Strengths and limitations of epistemic definitions of confabulation

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  84. Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs

    Article • November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  85. The Epistemic Benefits of Reason Giving

    Article • Theory & Psychology, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  86. IMMORTALITY WITHOUT BOREDOM

    Article • Ratio, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  87. Review of Evnine, Simon J., Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. viii + 176, £32.50 (cloth)

    Article • Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  88. Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience: An overview

    Article • May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  89. The future of scientific psychiatry

    Article • May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  90. Reproductive and parental autonomy: an argument for compulsory parental education

    Article • Reproductive BioMedicine Online, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  91. Neurophilosophy at Work * By PAUL CHURCHLAND

    Article • Analysis, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  92. Review: Rachel Cooper: Psychiatry and Philosophy of Science

    Article • Mind, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  93. Delusional Beliefs and Reason Giving

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  94. Reproductive cloning in humans and therapeutic cloning in primates: is the ethical debate catching up with the recent scientific advances?

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, September 2008, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  95. Essential Philosophy of Psychiatry By Tim Thornton. Oxford University Press. 2007. £19.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199228713

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, September 2008, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  96. A role for ownership and authorship in the analysis of thought insertion

    Article • Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, August 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  97. Rationality and Compulsion. By Lennart Nordenfelt. Oxford University Press. 2007. 224pp. £29.95 (pb). ISBN 9780199214853

    Article • The British Journal of Psychiatry, March 2008, Royal College of Psychiatrists

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  98. WHAT DOES FIDO BELIEVE?

    Article • Think, January 2008, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  99. Delimiting the concept of research: an ethical perspective

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, August 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  100. Large Scale Surveys for Policy Formation and Research–a Study in Inconsistency

    Article • Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, July 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  101. Disputes Over Moral Status: Philosophy and Science in the Future of Bioethics

    Article • Health Care Analysis, February 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  102. Moral Rights and Human Culture

    Article • Ethical Perspectives, December 2006, Peeters Publishers

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  103. Deception in Psychology: Moral Costs and Benefits of Unsought Self-Knowledge

    Article • Accountability in Research, September 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  104. Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2006, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  105. Embryos and Eagles: Symbolic Value in Research and Reproduction

    Article • Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, December 2005, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  106. An Ethical Framework for Stem Cell Research in the European Union

    Article • Health Care Analysis, September 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  107. INTENTIONALITY WITHOUT RATIONALITY

    Article • Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Hardback), May 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  108. Delusions and the Background of Rationality

    Article • Mind & Language, April 2005, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  109. Stem cell research, personhood and sentience

    Article • Reproductive BioMedicine Online, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  110. Discussion (day 1 session 1): Assisted conception and moral philosophy

    Article • Reproductive BioMedicine Online, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  111. Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution

    Article • Australasian Journal of Philosophy, June 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  112. Marks of Irrationality

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  113. Delusion

    Article • Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti