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On Dreams and dreaming| title | On Dreams and dreaming |
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| start_date | 2024/04/22 |
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| schedule | 15h-17h |
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| online | no |
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| location_info | Salle de réunion |
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| summary | The expression ’to dream’ and its cognates are examined, and different senses distinguished. Global dream scepticism is rejected. Cartesian dream scepticism is examined and Descartes’s refutation of it is found faulty. Nevertheless the idea that we cannot know whether we are dreaming or waking is repudiated.
Scepticism about dreaming, however, is far more interesting. It raises doubts about whether we ever dream. Is what we call ’dreaming’ not merely a post-sleep mnemonic hallucination ? This idea is explored. It is argued that this is an alternative form of representation. It is not false, but it is not our form of representation. The conclusion defended is that the contention that dreams occur during sleep is not itself an empirical claim. It is in fact a convention of representation, for which a commonly unexamined price is paid. |
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| responsibles | Dokic, Arcangeli |
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| submitted | published | | 2024/04/05 11:41 UTC |
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