A Puzzle About First-Person Imagination

Clas Weber

doi:10.1007/s11098-023-01996-6

A Puzzle About First-Person Imagination

Clas Weber

Discipline of Philosophy

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Abstract

It is easy to imagine being someone else from the first-person point of view. Such imaginings give rise to a puzzle. In this paper I explain what the puzzle is and then consider several existing attempts of solving the puzzle. I argue that these attempts are unsuccessful. I propose a Lewisian account of first-person imagination and make the case that this account solves the puzzle.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2435-2455
Number of pages	21
Journal	Philosophical Studies: an international journal for philosophy in the analytic tradition
Volume	180
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-01996-6
Publication status	Published - Aug 2023

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