Dipartimento di Filosofia e Scienze dell'Educazione

(Lancaster University)

 

Imagination, Attention, and Transparency
This paper sketches an account of the phenomenology of sensory imagining, the key to which involves characterising certain ways in which it differs from standard cases of visual perception. I shall argue that the role of attention is crucial to showing how imagining lacks a particular kind of ‘transparency’ that perception typically possesses. I suggest that not only is the view I offer supported by significant empirical evidence, it points to a way of unifying certain rather disparate research areas in the neuroscience of imagining.