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

    Article • Danish Yearbook of Philosophy, January 2022, Brill

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  3. Optimism, Agency, and Success

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  4. Can delusions play a protective role?

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  5. Epistemic innocence and the production of false memory beliefs

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  7. Unrealistic optimism – Its nature, causes and effects

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  8. What is unrealistic optimism?

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  9. Moral Preferences

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  10. Recent Work on the Nature and Development of Delusions

    Article • Philosophy Compass, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  11. 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

  12. The Ethics of Delusional Belief

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  13. The epistemic innocence of motivated delusions

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  14. Costs and Benefits of Imperfect Cognitions

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  15. Costs and benefits of realism and optimism

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  16. Rationality, Diagnosis, and Patient Autonomy in Psychiatry

    Article • December 2014

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  17. Natural and para-natural kinds in psychiatry

    Article • November 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • World Psychiatry, June 2014, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  19. 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

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  21. Rationality and Sanity

    Article • June 2013

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  22. Sentience, Moral Relevance of

    Article • February 2013, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  23. The relative importance of undesirable truths

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • April 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • Emotion Review, April 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  26. Can we recreate delusions in the laboratory?

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, February 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  27. Does reflection lead to wise choices?

    Article • Philosophical Explorations, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  28. Précis of Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  29. In Defence of Modest Doxasticism About Delusions

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, June 2011, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  31. Continuing Commentary: Shaking the Bedrock

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  32. Moral Responsibility and Mental Illness: A Case Study

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • Psychological Medicine, January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  34. Natural versus Assisted Reproduction: In Search of Fairness

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • Consciousness and Cognition, December 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  37. Delusions and Other Irrational Beliefs

    Article • November 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  38. The Epistemic Benefits of Reason Giving

    Article • Theory & Psychology, October 2009, SAGE Publications

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  39. IMMORTALITY WITHOUT BOREDOM

    Article • Ratio, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  40. Psychiatry as cognitive neuroscience: An overview

    Article • May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  41. The future of scientific psychiatry

    Article • May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

    Article • Reproductive BioMedicine Online, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  43. Delusional Beliefs and Reason Giving

    Article • Philosophical Psychology, December 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  44. 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

  45. 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

  46. Delimiting the concept of research: an ethical perspective

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  47. 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

  48. 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

  49. Moral Rights and Human Culture

    Article • Ethical Perspectives, December 2006, Peeters Publishers

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  51. Animal rights, animal minds, and human mindreading

    Article • Journal of Medical Ethics, February 2006, BMJ

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

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

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

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  54. Delusions and the Background of Rationality

    Article • Mind & Language, April 2005, Wiley

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  55. Stem cell research, personhood and sentience

    Article • Reproductive BioMedicine Online, January 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti

  56. Marks of Irrationality

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisa Bortolotti