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I'm a very visual person and philosophy was one of the courses I had to take way back in my first year at uni. This was a long time ago (I graduated in 1980), but I remember that course having some of the most difficult reading I've ever encountered. With most of it, I just read it and hoped that something would click. However, I understood the tutorials. If anyone has read Gulliver's Travels and remembers the silly factions disputing trivial things, that's what I would picture during the tutorials. I imagined old men with white beards (philosophers) arguing and dividing into groups of thought, each convinced that they were right.
On the whole, though, I think this type of writing uses a different part of the brain, maybe the left hemisphere, from fiction and visualisation which perhaps uses the right hemisphere.
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