Intruders in the Mind is an interdisciplinary attempt to bring together high-quality contributions to fundamental debates arising from the study of thought insertion. Making thought insertion its central topic, this compilation gathers a series of essays that offer a broad and thoughtful approach to several aspects of the study of the phenomenon.

Pablo López-Silva is Professor of Psychology at the School of Psychology, and Research Professor at the Institute of Philosophy of the Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile. Pablo López-Silva holds a Licentiate in Psychology, a Professional Qualification as Psychologist, a Postgraduate Diploma in Attachment Theory and Early Cares (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso), and a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education Teaching (Universidad de Valparaíso). Pablo López-Silva is Master in Research and PhD in Philosophy (University of Manchester, UK). His areas of research are Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of Psychology, Psychopathology, and Neuroethics.
Tom McClelland is a lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is also a researcher on the Inner Speech in Action project based at UPF Barcelona. Tom McClelland's research explores the philosophy and science of perception, thought and the self. He is currently working on how mental action is guided by the perception of affordances and how patterns of individual difference in perceptual experience can constitute social injustices. He is interested in how insights from psychology and philosophy of mind can be marshalled to address social problems.

• Characterizing Alien Thoughts: Redefinitions and Novel Explorations


• 1: Roberta Payne: When is the Thought Mine and When is it Not? A Personal View on Inserted Thoughts


• 2: Clara Humpston and Matthew Broome: Delusional Beliefs and Thought Insertion


• 3: Aaron Mishara, Pablo López-Silva, Cherise Rosen, and Andreas Heinz: Self-Disturbances, Perceptual Anomalies, and Physicality: Towards a Multimodal Model of Thought Insertion


• 4: Michelle Maisse: Thought Insertion, Mental Affordances, and Affectivity


• 5: Sam Wilkinson: Soundless Voices and Inserted Thoughts: A Distinction that makes a Difference


• 6: Jasper Feyaerts and Wouter Kusters: On Philosophy and Schizophrenia: The Case of Thought Insertion


• Explaining the Intruded Mind: The Aetiological Problem


• 7: Catherine J. Cazimir and Albert R. Powers: Thought insertion and auditory hallucinations: Phenomenological and Mechanistic Commonalities


• 8: Pablo López-Silva and Álvaro Cavieres: Schizophrenia and the Error-Prediction Model of Thought Insertion


• 9: Kengo Miyazono: A Hybrid Account of Thought Insertion


• 10: Emilia Vilatta: Delusions of Thought Insertion: A Multifactorial Approach


• 11: Peter Langland-Hassan: Thought Insertion as a Persecutory Delusion


• Brain, Mind, and Contexts of Care: Experimental and Therapeutic Approaches to TI


• 12: Elisa Brann, Eamonn Walsh, Mitul A. Mehta, David A. Oakley, and Quinton Deeley: Experimental Approaches to Understanding Thought Insertion


• 13: Alice Pailhès, Jay Olson, and Gustav Kuhn: What can magic and science tell us about the experience of thought insertion?


• 14: Kentaro Hiromitsu and Tomohisa Asai: Generalized Internal Model of Mental Representations: Thought Insertion, Mental Agency, and the Cerebellum


• 15: Susana Ochoa: Metacognitive Treatment in Patients with Though Insertion


• Beyond the Phenomenon: Thought Insertion and the Nature of Thinking


• 16: Jordi Fernández: Thought Insertion and Commitment


• 17: Johannes Roessler: Thought insertion and The Ontology of Thinking