Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic

Name: Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic
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ISBN: 9780262516495

ISBN-10: 0262516497

ISBN-13: 9780262516495

Edition: 2011

Authors: Russell Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel

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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…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 8/19/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English