The Philosophy and Psychology of Delusions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032265926)

Ana Falcato holds a PhD in Philosophy from the NOVA/FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal. Between 2013 and 2015, she was a Humboldt Research Fellow at the Johannes-Gutenberg University and the University of Oxford. Her work has appeared in Studies in the Novel, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Kant-Studien, Wittgenstein-Studien, Daimon: Revista International de Filosofía and the Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. She published Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism in 2018 and Phenomenological Approaches to Intersubjectivity and Values in 2019 (co-edited with Luís Aguiar de Sousa). In 2021 appeared her edited collection The Politics of Emotional Shockwaves. Ana is Assistant Researcher at NOVA/FCSH, where she conducts a project about the novelistic and critical work of J.M. Coetzee.

Jorge Gonçalves is a Post-doctoral research fellow in Philosophy at Instituto de Filosofia da Nova (IFILNOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he works on Philosophy of Psychiatry, Consciousness and Self-Studies, and Philosophy of Psychology. He graduated first in Psychology (1988) and afterwards in Philosophy (1997), both in Lisbon. He has a master's degree in Philosophy (2002) and a PhD (2007) in Philosophy ("Consciousness and Natural Order"). Between 1988 and 1999, he worked as a clinical psychologist (educational, learning disabilities and chronic mental illness). Gonçalves's current research is on topics in Philosophy of Psychiatry, with a special focus on the concept of mental illness, the mindbody problem and psychiatry, theories of delusion, and the problem of the unconscious. He is the author of several papers and editor of three books. Jorge was PI of the funded project 'Cognitive Foundations of the Self', sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) between 2009 and 2012.