Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic

by Eric Schwitzgebel and Russell T. Hurlburt

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262516497
• ISBN13: 9780262516495
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher