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The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations (2016)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S., & Bell, V. (2016). The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations. Mind and Language, 31(1), 104-126. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12096

Current models of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) tend to focus on the mechanisms underlying their occurrence, but often fail to address the content of the auditory experience. In other words, they tend to ask why there are AVHs at all, instead... Read More about The Representation of Agents in Auditory Verbal Hallucinations.

How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations (2015)
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Ratcliffe, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2016). How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations. Consciousness and Cognition, 39, 48-58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2015.11.009

Verbal hallucinations are often associated with pronounced feelings of anxiety, and it has also been suggested that anxiety somehow triggers them. In this paper, we offer a phenomenological or ‘personal-level’ account of how it does so. We show how a... Read More about How anxiety induces verbal hallucinations.

Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction (2015)
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Wilkinson, S., & Alderson-Day, B. (2016). Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(3), 529-540. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0288-6

In this introduction we present the orthodox account of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), a number of worries for this account, and some potential responses open to its proponents. With some problems still remaining, we then introduce the proble... Read More about Voices and Thoughts in Psychosis: An Introduction.

A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification (2015)
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Wilkinson, S. (2016). A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification. Review of Philosophy and Psychology, 7(2), 389-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-015-0260-5

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 aetiolog... Read More about A Mental Files Approach to Delusional Misidentification.

Thought Insertion Clarified (2015)
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Ratcliffe, M., & Wilkinson, S. (2015). Thought Insertion Clarified. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 22(11-12), 246-269

'Thought insertion' in schizophrenia involves somehow experiencing one's own thoughts as someone else's. Some philos-ophers try to make sense of this by distinguishing between ownership and agency: one still experiences oneself as the owner of an ins... Read More about Thought Insertion Clarified.

Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework (2014)
Journal Article
Wilkinson, S. (2014). Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework. Consciousness and Cognition, 30, 142-155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2014.09.002

Two challenges that face popular self-monitoring theories (SMTs) of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH) are that they cannot account for the auditory phenomenology of AVHs and that they cannot account for their variety. In this paper I show that both... Read More about Accounting for the phenomenology and varieties of auditory verbal hallucination within a predictive processing framework.

Levels and kinds of explanation: lessons from neuropsychiatry (2014)
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Wilkinson, S. (2014). Levels and kinds of explanation: lessons from neuropsychiatry. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article 373. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00373

I use an example from neuropsychiatry, namely delusional misidentification, to show a distinction between levels of explanation and kinds of explanation. Building on a pragmatic view of explanation, different kinds of explanation arise because we hav... Read More about Levels and kinds of explanation: lessons from neuropsychiatry.

The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals (2013)
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Wilkinson, S. (2013). The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals. THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science, 28(3), 421-436

Marcus’s view of belief is applied to the debate that centers around the question, “Are delusions beliefs?” Two consequences of this are that, i) the question, “Are delusions beliefs?”, strictly speaking, needs rephrasing and ii) that, once the quest... Read More about The Status of Delusion in the Light of Marcus’s Revisionary Proposals.