TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hurlburt,Russell T.
AU  - Schwitzgebel,Eric
TI  - Describing inner experience?: proponent meets skeptic 
T2  - Life and mind
SN  - 9780262275934
AV  - BF311 .H87 2007eb
U1  - 153 22
PY  - 2007///
KW  - S.
KW  - Bewusstsein
KW  - gnd
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Introspection
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Psychological Theory
KW  - Conscience
KW  - Philosophie
KW  - philosophy
KW  - aat
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Cognitive Science
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PSYCHOLOGY
KW  - Cognitive Psychology
KW  - fast
KW  - Selbstbeobachtung
KW  - Bewustzijn
KW  - gtt
KW  - Introspectie
KW  - idsbb
KW  - idszbz
KW  - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
KW  - COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - "A Bradford book."; Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-318) and index; 1; Introduction --; 2; Can there be a satisfactory introspective method? (Hurlburt) --; 3; Descartes inverted (Schwitzgebel) --; 4; The first sampling day --; 5; The second sampling day --; 6; The third sampling day --; 7; The fourth sampling day --; 8; The fifth sampling day --; 9; The sixth sampling day --; 10; Eric's reflections (Schwitzgebel) --; 11; Russ's reflections (Hurlburt) --; 12; Eric's response to Russ, and some parting thoughts (Schwitzgebel); Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 imagery, our felt emotions? The question is central not only to our humanistic understanding of who we are but also to the burgeoning scientific field of consciousness studies. The two authors of Describing Inner Experience disagree on the answer: Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist, argues that improved methods of introspective reporting make accurate accounts of inner experience possible; Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, believes that any introspective reporting is inevitably prone to error. In this book the two discuss to what extent it is possible to describe our inner experience accurately. Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel recruited a subject, "Melanie," to report on her conscious experience using Hurlburt's Descriptive Experience Sampling method (in which the subject is cued by random beeps to describe her conscious experience). The heart of the book is Melanie's accounts, Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel's interviews with her, and their subsequent discussions while studying the transcripts of the interviews. In this way the authors' dispute about the general reliability of introspective reporting is steadily tempered by specific debates about the extent to which Melanie's particular reports are believable. Transcripts and audio files of the interviews will be available on the MIT Press website. Describing Inner Experience? is not so much a debate as it is a collaboration, with each author seeking to refine his position and to replace partisanship with balanced critical judgment. The result is an illumination of major issues in the study of consciousness--from two sides at once
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