MindPapers: 5.1e.2. The Nature of Dreaming

Ayer, A. J. (1960). Professor Malcolm on dreams. Journal of Philosophy 57 (August):517-534. (Cited by 2 | Google | More links)

Ichikawa, Jonathan (2009). Dreaming and imagination. Mind and Language 24 (1):103-121. (Google | More links)

Abstract: Penultimate draft; please refer to published version. I argue, on philosophical, psychological, and neurophysiological grounds, that contrary to an orthodox view, dreams do not typically involve misleading sensations and false beliefs. I am thus in partial agreement with Colin McGinn, who has argued that we do not have misleading sensory experience while dreaming, and partially in agreement with Ernest Sosa, who has argued that we do not form false beliefs while dreaming. Rather, on my view, dreams involve mental imagery and propositional imagination. I defend the imagination model of dreaming from some objections

Sutton, John (forthcoming). Dreaming. In John Symons & Paco Calvo (eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology. Routledge. (Google)

Abstract: for Paco Calvo and John Symons (eds), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Psychology (Routledge, November 2008)

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