...This chapter outlines the overall argument of the book, emphasizing its two principal theses. First of all, it sketches the position that thought insertion, and also a substantial proportion of auditory verbal hallucinations, consist of disturbances in the sense of being in one or another kind...

...This chapter begins by considering the possibility that a number of factors contribute to the sense of being in an intentional state, and that these can come into conflict. The remainder of the chapter argues that thought insertion (TI) and certain kinds of auditory verbal hallucination (AVH...

...This chapter develops a detailed account of what auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs) consist of and how they arise. It focuses, to begin with, on those that involve a quasi-perceptual experience of ‘inner speech’ or ‘inner dialogue’. Such experiences are often preceded by heightened social...

...This chapter argues that we can affirm the pattern of first-person thinking without the epistemic conception of hallucination. The chapter starts by explaining the link that Michael Martin draws between the first-person thinking and the epistemic conception of hallucination. It then goes...

...This chapter argues that the indirect realists' recourse to mental representations does not permit them to account for the possibility of hallucination, nor for the presentational character of visual experience. To allow for the presentational character, the chapter suggests a kind...

...This chapter presents the revised and successful causal argument for sense-data, which is a combination of the original causal argument and the argument from hallucination. It presents two propositions which together entail that perceptual processes in the brain produce some object of awareness...

...This chapter aims to demonstrate, conditionally, that if non-normal objects are accepted as objects of immediate awareness for cases of hallucination, the generalizing step goes through, and Direct Realism is shown to be false. What both genuine perceptions and possible hallucinations have...

...This chapter examines the controversy between the so-called Conjunctivists and Disjunctivists over the nature of hallucination and veridical sensing. The perplexing nature of the combination of Direct Realism and acceptance of an argument from hallucination is due to many ill-posed but currently...

..., which is often related to attempts to draw a sharp distinction between imagining and perceiving more generally. From this discussion, it becomes clear that dreaming is an important test case for theories of perception, hallucination, and imagination. In the second half of the chapter, I relate...

... similar hallucination must have significant mental commonalities. Disjunctivists challenge this assumption, contending that the veridical perception and the corresponding hallucination share no mental core. Suppose that while you are looking at a lemon, God suddenly removes it, while keeping your brain...

...This chapter widens the scope of the discussion, to include types of hallucination not so far considered. It begins by drawing on Merleau-Ponty’s remarks on hallucination in Phenomenology of Perception, in order to identify a type of experience that differs both from orthodox...

... link to false or misbegotten belief. We deny this premise and show how it should make us worry that we understand what makes illusions, delusions, and hallucinations unhealthy or abnormal. In fact, we deny that illusions, delusions, and hallucinations are categorically or even typically unhealthy...

...This chapter recounts the story of a non-meditating veterinarian who underwent a kind of transformation of attitudes after she emerged from a triggered alternate state experience. Six months later she also experienced a life-changing, auditory verbal hallucination. Inner word thoughts are common...

...Reflection on the nature of hallucination has relevance for many traditional philosophical debates concerning the nature of the mind, perception, and our knowledge of the world. In recent years, neuroimaging techniques and scientific findings on the nature of hallucination, combined with interest...

...This chapter introduces some of the central concepts, themes, and issues addressed in the book. First of all, it discusses the concept of ‘minimal self’ and its recent application to schizophrenia and auditory verbal hallucination (AVH). Then it raises the question of whether minimal self includes...

... functions so as to enable an item in the far periphery to be “seen,” in clear focus, in a paradoxical manner. Internal absorption Maple leaf hallucination Paradox Parahippocampus Temporal cortex Visual hallucinations Memory State bound events Working memory internal absorption visual hallucination...

... perception and hallucination. The chapter reconstructs different versions of this view from the historical and contemporary philosophical literature, the strongest of which claims that dreaming literally replicates the phenomenology of standard wake states in all of its detail. These different versions...

... hallucination and nature of experience more generally. Trauma Schizophrenia psychologists neuroscientists philosophy hallucination experience This volume is broadly divided into three parts. Part I comprises scientific papers written by psychologists and neuroscientists, and Parts II and III contain...