 According to the doxastic conception of delusions (dominant among psychologists and psychiatrists), delusions are belief states – it is an important diagnostic features of delusions that they can lead to action and that they can be reported with conviction, and thus that they behave as typical beliefs. (See the entry on  belief.)  But there is an increasingly influential view in philosophy warning that the doxastic characterization of delusions would lead to an oversimplification of the phenomenon. Although some of the alternative accounts of delusions (e.g., experiential, phenomenological, and metarepresentational) are critical towards standard doxastic conceptions, they do not necessarily deny that the phenomenon of delusions involves the formation of beliefs. Rather, the central idea seems to be that, even if we report false or irrational beliefs when we experience delusions, paying attention only to our first-order cognitive states and to the doxastic dimension of our mental life can lead to a partial and incorrect view of the phenomenon of delusions (see also Radden 2010).