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Hallucinating real things

Steven P. James

pp. 3711-3732

Abstract

No particular dagger was the object of Macbeth’s hallucination of a dagger. In contrast, when he hallucinated his former comrade Banquo, Banquo himself was the object of the hallucination. Although philosophers have had much to say about the nature and philosophical import of hallucinations (e.g. Macpherson and Platchias, Hallucination, 2013) and object-involving attitudes (e.g. Jeshion, New essays on singular thought, 2010), their intersection has largely been neglected. Yet, object-involving hallucinations raise interesting questions about memory, perception, and the ways in which we have knowledge of the world around us. In this paper, I offer an account of object-involving hallucinations. Specifically, I argue that they are an unusual species of perceptual remembering.

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Published in:

(2014) Synthese 191 (15).

Pages: 3711-3732

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-014-0492-4

Full citation:

James Steven P. (2014) „Hallucinating real things“. Synthese 191 (15), 3711–3732.