CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Avilés Meza, Edvard Daniel |
|---|---|
| Title | Between Perception and Imagination: Philosophical and Cognitive Dilemmas |
| Summary | Does imagination play any significant role in veridical perceptual experience? If yes, what are the consequences for epistemology, philosophy of perception and the philosophy of mind? The main proposal of my dissertation is that if the answer to the first question is positive, then we obtain very significant consequences in the cited domains. In particular, I’ll focus on the hypothesis that mental imagery plays a constitutive role in amodal completion to show that significant results can be obtained in the debate about the cognitive penetrability of perception and epistemic justification; disjunctivism and the nature of hallucinations; and, finally, representationalism and perceptual content. Thus, I attempt to do fourth things. First, I argue that explanations of the epistemological problem of cognitive penetrability that blame mental imagery lead to a dilemma about perceptual justification. Second, I propose a solution to the epistemological problem that is consistent with imagery-based theories and avoids the dilemma. Third, I argue that disjunctivist theories that give a positive account of hallucination in terms of mental imagery are false. Finally, I argue that we can generate a counterexample to classical versions of representationalism based on perceptual completions. |
| Supervisor | Crane, Tim. |
| Department | Philosophy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/aviles_edvard.pdf |
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