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https://doi.org/10.31820/ejap.16.2.1

Rationality in mental disorders: too little or too much?

Valentina Cardella ; University of Messina


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The idea that mental illnesses are impairments in rationality is very old, and very common (Kasanin 1944; Harvey et al. 2004; Graham 2010). But is it true? In this article two severe mental disorders, schizophrenia and delusional disorder, are investigated in order to find some defects in rationality. Through the analysis of patients’ performances on different tests, and the investigation of their typical reasoning styles, I will show that mental disorders can be deficits in social cognition, or common sense, but not in rationality (Sass 1992; Johnson-Laird et al. 2006; Bergamin 2018). Moreover, my claim is that psychopathological patients can also be, in some circumstances, more logical than normal controls (Kemp et al. 1997; Owen et al. 2007). From a philosophical point of view these data seem to be very relevant, because they help us to reconsider our idea of rationality, and to challenge the common way to look at sanity and mental illness.

Ključne riječi

Rationality; schizophrenia; delusional disorder; common sense

Hrčak ID:

246175

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/246175

Datum izdavanja:

8.11.2020.

Podaci na drugim jezicima: hrvatski

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