The nature of hallucinatory experience
| dc.contributor.advisor | Tye, Michael | |
| dc.creator | Alves, Marco Aurelio Sousa | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-16T19:15:10Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-12 | en |
| dc.date.submitted | December 2014 | en |
| dc.date.updated | 2015-01-16T19:15:10Z | en |
| dc.description | text | en |
| dc.description.abstract | This dissertation seeks to advance our understanding of the nature of hallucinatory experience. It defines and contrasts the two major current theories about the nature of perceptual experience: representationalism and naïve realism. I then argue that most (if not all) current versions of these theories do not offer a satisfactory account of hallucination. Finally, I propose and defend a schematic version of a Kaplanian theory for perceptual experience that can arguably give a satisfactory account of the distinctive nature of hallucination. I compare my proposal with similar candidates and argue that it offers a more promising way of accounting for the relevant desiderata in a harmonious way. In short, I propose that hallucinatory experiences are failed experiences of a special sort. By having a hallucination, the subject fails to be in contact with worldly objects, and this special kind of failure can be accounted for in terms of a failed reference to putative objects. On my proposal, a hallucinatory state purports to represent a specific state-of-the-world, but it fails to do so. This renders hallucinatory states incapable of being (properly speaking) either veridical or falsidical. This peculiar aspect of hallucination, I claim, is not properly captured by most (if not all) theories to date. | en |
| dc.description.department | Philosophy | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2152/28083 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.subject | Hallucination | en |
| dc.subject | Perceptual content | en |
| dc.title | The nature of hallucinatory experience | en |
| dc.type | Thesis | en |
| thesis.degree.department | Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Philosophy | en |
| thesis.degree.grantor | The University of Texas at Austin | en |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en |