Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Everyday Confabulation

Volume: 9, Issue: 2, Pages: 227 - 249
Published: Oct 26, 2017
Abstract
In this paper I discuss the costs and benefits of confabulation, focusing on the type of confabulation people engage in when they offer explanations for their attitudes and choices. What makes confabulation costly? In the philosophical literature confabulation is thought to undermine claims to self-knowledge. I argue that when people confabulate they do not necessarily fail at mental-state self-attributions, but offer ill-grounded explanations...
Paper Details
Title
Stranger than Fiction: Costs and Benefits of Everyday Confabulation
Published Date
Oct 26, 2017
Volume
9
Issue
2
Pages
227 - 249
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