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  title info:
    title: Describing inner experience?
    sub title: proponent meets skeptic
  name:
    name part: Hurlburt, Russell T.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Schwitzgebel, Eric.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Cambridge, Mass
    publisher: MIT Press
    date issued: ©2007
    date issued: 2007
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages).
  abstract: 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…
  note: Russell T. Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel.
  note: "A Bradford book."
  subject:
    topic: Consciousness
  subject:
    topic: Introspection
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/General
  subject:
    topic: COGNITIVE SCIENCES/Psychology/Cognitive Psychology
  classification: BF311 .H87 2007eb
  classification: 153
  identifier: 9780262275934
  identifier: 0262275937
  identifier: 9781435609075
  identifier: 1435609077
  identifier: 9780262516495
  identifier: 0262516497
  identifier: 9780262083669
  identifier: 0262083663
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: OCoLC-P
    record creation date: 071127
    record change date: 20221121162606.8
    record identifier: in00004602101
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng