Abstract

What are hallucinations? A frequent view in the philosophical literature is that hallucinations are degenerate sorts of perceptual experience. I argue alternatively that hallucinations are degenerate sorts of sensory imagination. As properly as offering a true account of many authentic instances of hallucination, the view that hallucination is a type of creativeness represents a promising account of hallucination from the standpoint of a disjunctives idea of grasp like naïve realism. This is due to the fact it presents a way of giving a tremendous characterization of hallucination—rather than characterizing hallucinations in negative, relational, phrases as intellectual occasions that are subjectively indistinguishable from veridical perceptual experiences.

Keywords: Hallucinations; Neuropsychiatry; Psychiatry