A Study of Resonable Responses to "the Argument from Hallucination": In Comparison between Disjunctivism and Representationalism

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25370005
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: YOKOYAMA Mikiko 筑波大学, 図書館情報メディア系, 准教授 (40302434)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 知覚 / 選言説 / 表象説 / 志向説 / 素朴実在論 / 幻覚からの議論 / 知覚的経験 / 幻覚的経験

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, I examined the argument from hallucination. According to the argument from hallucination, the everyday conception of perception is incompatible with the possibility of hallucination and the everyday conception is therefore false. I examined the major theories of perceptual experience as responses to the argument, disjunctivism and representationalism. I also investigated how to explicate the notion of veridical perceptual experience and the notion of hallucinatory experience in order for the everyday conception of perception to be true.

Free Research Field

哲学