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Describing inner experience? : proponent meets skeptic
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Describing inner experience? : proponent meets skeptic

Author: Russell T Hurlburt; Eric Schwitzgebel
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Life and mind.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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  Read more...
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Hurlburt, Russell T.
Describing inner experience?
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
(OCoLC)608029688
Named Person: S.
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Russell T Hurlburt; Eric Schwitzgebel
ISBN: 9780262083669 0262083663
OCLC Number: 80019958
Notes: "A Bradford book."
Description: viii, 322 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: I: Proponent meets skeptic --
Introduction --
Can there be a satisfactory introspective method? / Hurlburt --
Descartes inverted / Schwitzgebel --
II: Interviews --
The first sampling day --
The second sampling day --
The third sampling day --
The fourth sampling day --
The fifth sampling day --
The sixth sampling day --
III: Reflections --
Eric's reflections / Schwitzgebel --
Russ's reflections / Hurlburt --
Eric's response to Russ, and some parting thoughts / Schwitzgebel.
Series Title: Life and mind.
Responsibility: Russell T. 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? This book features discussions of  Read more...

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"...anything but boring...In my own soundless inner-speech, I kept saying, 'This is so good!'" Bill Faw Journal of Consciousness Studies "In Describing Inner Experience, Russell Hurlburt and Eric Read more...

 
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