Abstract

What are visions? A common view in the philosophical literature is that visions are degenerate kinds of perceptual experience. I argue instead that visions are degenerate kinds of sensitive imagination. As well as furnishing a good account of numerous factual cases of daydream, the view that daydream is a kind of imagination represents a promising account of daydream from the perspective of a disjunctivist proposition of perception like naïve literalism. This is because it provides a way of giving a positive characterisation of daydream — rather than characterizing visions in negative, relational, terms as internal events that