Naïve realism, imagination and hallucination

Abstract Naïve realists hold that the phenomenology of veridical perceptual experience is in part constituted by environmental objects subject perceiving. Although naïve realism well-motivated considering cognitive and epistemic roles experience, it considered difficult to explain hallucinatory imaginative experiences. This paper provides three arguments address these explanatory problems systematically on behalf realism. First, I argue imagination view hallucination (IH), which states hallucinations are involuntary sensory imagination, can be applied total neutrally matching hallucinations. Second, for conjunction IH representational (RI), according (including hallucination) (shortly RIH). Third, coherently integrated with RIH. finally present an integrative model perception, from perspective combination