Lisa Bortolotti

Her thesis, supervised by Bill Newton-Smith, was on "the rationality debate in philosophy and the cognitive sciences".

Her doctoral thesis, which was supervised by Martin Davies, challenged Donald Davidson's account of belief ascription.

In 2007, she took up a visiting professorship at the European School of Molecular Medicine, Milan, which she held until 2008; in that same year, she spent several months at the Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University on a research fellowship and was promoted to senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham.

[1] 2008 was also the year of publication of her first book, which was a textbook entitled An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science, published by Polity.

She edited Philosophy and Happiness, a collection released by Palgrave Macmillan,[4] and co-edited, with Matthew R. Broome, Psychiatry as Cognitive Neuroscience: Philosophical Perspectives.

[6][7] The latter book was published by Oxford University Press, and contained essays by a range of academics, broadly addressing the status of psychiatry as a science.

It was widely reviewed,[8][9][10][11][12] and was listed as one 2009's "books of the year" in The Guardian, with Mary Warnock saying that "[d]espite its title, it's a gripping read".

These were by: Jakob Hohwy and Vivek Rajan;[21] Eric Schwitzgebel;[22] Dominic Murphy;[23] Keith Frankish;[24] and Maura Tumulty.

[37] Her open access edited collection Epistemic Justice in Mental Healthcare was published in 2024.

[26] After setting out the background to the question, Bortolotti explores whether the procedural irrationality of delusions—the fact that they do not rationally relate to the other intentional states of the agent—justifies the denial that they are beliefs.

[26] In addition to her books, Bortolotti has published over 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 20 chapters in edited collections.