Is Presence Perceptual?

Perceptual experience and visual imagination both offer a first-person perspective on visible objects. But these perspectives are strikingly different. For it is distinctive of ordinary perceptual intentionality that objects seem to be present the perceiver. I term this phenomenal property ‘presence’. This paper introduces positive definition presence. Dokic Martin (2017) argue presence not genuine experience, appealing empirical research derealisation disorders, Parkinson’s disease, virtual reality hallucination. demonstrate their arguments fall short establishing perceptual.