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Søren Overgaard

2 papers in the library · publishing 2022-2026

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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...

Phenomenologists on Perception and Hallucination: Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty

Philosophy Compass August 1, 2022 Søren Overgaard

Abstract There is a chasm in current analytic philosophy of perception between disjunctivists (and naïve realists), on the one hand, and ‘conjunctivists’ (intentionalists), on the other. For more than a decade, scholars of phenomenology have debated how classical phenomenologists such as Husserl and Merleau‐Ponty are to be located vis‐à‐vis this chasm. While there seems to be an emerging...