Describing Inner Experience?
Proponent Meets Skeptic
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- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
19 August 2011
Summary
A psychologist and a philosopher with opposing viewpoints discuss the extent to which it is possible to report accurately on our own conscious experience, considering both the reliability of introspection in general and the particular self-reported inner experiences of “Melanie,” a subject interviewed using the Descriptive Experience Sampling method.Can conscious experience be described accurately? Can we give reliable accounts of our sensory experiences and pains, our inner speech and imager…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262516495 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262516497 |
| Author: | Russell Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 19 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 408g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 14mm |
| Series: | Life and Mind: Philosophical Issues in Biology and Psychology |
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“This is a fascinating book and I highly recommend it.” Edouard Machery Psychology Today
… anything but boring… In my own soundless inner-speech, I kept saying, ‘This is so good!’
—Bill Faw, Journal of Consciousness StudiesIn Describing Inner Experience, Russell Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel address the question of whether the resurrected science of consciousness is doomed… Hurlburt’s answer is ‘no,’ Schwitzgebel’s is ‘quite possibly,’ and the volume takes the form of a debate between them.
—Tim Bayne, The Times Literary Supplement… Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel produced [a] remarkable book…
— Gary Wolf , Salon.comThis book is a treat…. It offers a new model of productive interdisciplinary cooperation. And reading it is a pleasure. It deserves a wide audience among both psychologists and philosophers.
—Gualtiero Piccinini, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsThis is a fascinating book and I highly recommend it.
—Edouard Machery, Psychology TodayAbout The Author
Russell Hurlburt
Russell T. Hurlburt is Professor of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.Eric Schwitzgebel is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside, and the author of Perplexities of Consciousness (MIT Press). His short, accessible essays on philosophical topics have appeared in a range of publications and on his popular blog, The Splintered Mind.
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