Contents

Preface

Contributors

1  The Philosophy and Psychology of Hallucination: An Introduction

Fiona Macpherson

2  Introduction to the Chapters

Dimitris Platchias

I  Psychology

3  The Hallucinating Brain: Neurobiological Insights into the Nature of Hallucinations

Dominic H. ffytche

4  Psychotic Hallucinations

Richard P. Bentall and Filippo Varese

5  Thinking Aloud about Mental Voices

Charles Fernyhough and Simon McCarthy-Jones

6  The Neuropsychology of Visual Hallucinations in Parkinson’s Disease and the Continuum Hypothesis

Ksenija Maravic da Silva

7  Hallucinations in Hypnosis

Peter Naish

II  Philosophy: Reflections on Disjunctivism

8  The Multidisjunctive Conception of Hallucination

Benj Hellie

9  Experience and Introspection

Fabian Dorsch

10  Explanation in Good and Bad Experiential Cases

Matthew Kennedy

11  Silencing the Argument from Hallucination

István Aranyosi

12  Naive Realism and Hallucinations

Matthew Nudds

13  Externalism and the Gappy Content of Hallucination

Susanna Schellenberg

14  The Failure of Disjunctivism to Deal with “Philosophers’ Hallucinations”

Howard Robinson

III  Philosophy: The Nature of Experience

15  Hearing and Hallucinating Silence

Ian Phillips

16  Hallucination, Mental Representation, and the Presentational Character

Costas Pagondiotis

17  Hallucinations and the Transparency of Perception

Paul Coates

18  A Sense of Reality

Katalin Farkas

Index