Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience

Tim Crane "Awareness of Properties"

Some philosophers, notably Mark Johnston, have proposed that we understand the content of hallucinations in terms of the awareness of uninstantiated properties. In this paper I criticise this approach to hallucination and propose an alternative: that hallucination involves the representation of properties. Johnston's view might depend on a mistaken relational conception of awareness; once this conception is abandoned, we can make sense of the idea that we can be aware in hallucination not just of properties, but of objects too.