Perception, Hallucination, and Illusion
- ISBN-10
- 0199869189
- ISBN-13
- 9780199869183
- Category
- Hallucinations and illusions
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Author
- William Fish
Description
A treatment of disjunctivism about visual experiences in the service of defending a naive realist theory of veridical visual perception, this book includes detailed theories of hallucination and illusion that show how such states can be indistinguishable from veridical experiences without sharing any common character.
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