"For many illusions, it is easy to find owners -- people who proudly declare that they believe in things such as life after death, human reason, and self-regulation of financial markets. Yet there are also different kinds of illusions at work, for example, in art: trompe l'oeil-…
Explores the hidden cost of our contemporary approach to pleasure, belief and illusion. Sports, design, eroticism, social intercourse and games - indeed, all those aspects of our culture commonly deemed 'pleasurable' - seem to require beliefs that many regard as illusory. But in…
Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds…
Essai.
Hallucination: philosophy and psychology
by Macpherson, Fiona, Platchias, Dimitris
fromEBL-Schweitzer
Scientific and philosophical perspectives on hallucination: essays that draw on empirical evidence from psychology, neuroscience, and cutting-edge philosophical theory.
