Simon Mccarthy Jones: 3 books
Hallucination
Philosophy and Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of...
Can't You Hear Them?
The Science and Significance of Hearing Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The experience of 'hearing voices', once associated with lofty prophetic communications, has fallen low. Today, the experience is typically portrayed as an unambiguous harbinger of madness caused by a broken brain, an unbalanced mind, biology gone wild. Yet an alternative account, forged predominantly...
Hearing Voices
The Histories, Causes and Meanings of Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
The meanings and causes of hearing voices that others cannot hear (auditory verbal hallucinations, in psychiatric parlance) have been debated for thousands of years. Voice-hearing has been both revered and condemned, understood as a symptom of disease as well as a source of otherworldly communication....