Imagery, the imagination and experience

Philosophical Quarterly 60 (241):735-753 (2010)
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Abstract

Visualizings, the simplest imaginings which employ visual imagery, have certain characteristic features; they are perspectival, for instance. Also, it seems that some but not all of our visualizings are imaginings of seeings. But it has been forcefully argued, for example by M.G.F. Martin and Christopher Peacocke, that all visualizings are imaginings of visual sensations. I block these arguments by providing an account of visualizings which allows for their perspectival nature and other features they typically have, but which also explains how we can visualize things without thereby imagining visual sensations

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Dominic Gregory
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The transparency of experience.Michael G. F. Martin - 2002 - Mind and Language 17 (4):376-425.
Imagination and the self.Bernard Williams - 1973 - In Problems of the Self. Cambridge University Press. pp. 26-45.
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