Hallucination and Its Objects

Abstract

When one visually hallucinates, the object of one’s hallucination is not before one’s eyes. On the standard view, that is because the object of hallucination does not exist, and so is not anywhere. Many different defenses of the standard view are on offer; each has problems. This article defends the view that there is always an object of hallucination—a physical object, sometimes with spatiotemporally scattered parts.

(In defence of) preservationism and the previous awareness condition: What is a theory of remembering, anyway?

“…(One could still remember one's experience , of course—see footnote 1, above.) What PAC entails is that if sensory hallucinations sometimes do involve the awareness of particulars ( inter alia , Byrne & Manzotti (2022); James (2014); Werning & Liefke (forthcoming)), then remembering those particulars will require that one was aware of them in one's original experience. And, according to preservationism, whatever hallucinated thing one can accurately remember as having been F , one must have been aware of its being F at the time of one's hallucinatory experience.…”

Whither naïve realism? – I

“…1515Naïve realists arguably have a more difficult problem with hallucination than representationalists (e.g., Beck 2023). For an account of hallucination that assimilates it to illusion, and so to that extent is naïve‐realist‐friendly, see Byrne and Manzotti 2022.…”