The illusion of reality: how (not) to think of hallucination
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences June 20, 2026 Søren Overgaard, Laura Oppi, Kasper Møller Nielsen et al.
Abstract It is surprisingly difficult to provide an account of hallucination that captures all the cases that clinicians typically class as hallucinations, without at the same time admitting cases that would not typically be classed as such. Most attempts to specify exactly what a hallucination is supposed to be fails to meet at least one of these conditions, as we show in the first part of the...