?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=HETEROPHENOMENOLOGY+VERSUS+CRITICAL+PHENOMENOLOGY&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Prof+Max&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=Following+an+on-line+dialogue+with+Dennett+(Velmans%2C+2001)+this+paper+examines+the+similarities+and+differences+between+heterophenomenology+(HP)+and+critical+phenomenology+(CP)%2C+two+competing+accounts+of+the+way+that+conscious+phenomenology+should+be%2C+and+normally+is+incorporated+into+psychology+and+related+sciences.+Dennett%E2%80%99s+heterophenomenology+includes+subjective+reports+of+conscious+experiences%2C+but+according+to+Dennett%2C+first+person+conscious+phenomenena+in+the+form+of+%E2%80%9Cqualia%E2%80%9D+such+as+hardness%2C+redness%2C+itchiness+etc.+have+no+real+existence.+Consequently%2C+subjective+reports+about+such+qualia+should+be+understood+as+prescientific+attempts+to+make+sense+of+brain+functioning+that+can+be+entirely+understood+in+third+person+terms.+I+trace+the+history+of+this+position+in+behaviourism+(Watson%2C+Skinner+and+Ryle)+and+early+forms+of+physicalism+and+functionalism+(Armstrong)%2C+and+summarise+some+of+the+difficulties+of+this+view.+Critical+phenomenology+also+includes+a+conventional%2C+third+person%2C+scientific+investigation+of+brain+and+behaviour+that+includes+subjects%E2%80%99+reports+of+what+they+experience.+CP+is+also+cautious+about+the+accuracy+or+completeness+of+subjective+reports.+However%2C+unlike+HP%2C+CP+does+not+assume+that+subjects+are+necessarily+deluded+about+their+experiences+or+doubt+that+these+experiences+can+have+real+qualities+that+can%2C+in+principle%2C+be+described.++Such+experienced+qualities+cannot+be+exhaustively+reduced+to+third-person+accounts+of+brain+and+behaviour.+CP+is+also+reflexive%2C+in+it+assumes+experimenters+to+have+first-person+experiences+that+they+can+describe+much+as+their+subjects+do.++And+crucially%2C+experimenter%E2%80%99s+third-person+reports+of+others+are+based%2C+in+the+first+instance%2C+on+their+own+first-person+experiences.++CP+is+commonplace+in+psychological+science%2C+and+given+that+it+conforms+both+to+scientific+practice+and+common+sense%2C+I+argue+that+there+is+little+to+recommend+HP+other+than+an+attempt+to+shore+up+a+counterintuitive%2C+reductive+philosophy+of+mind.&rft.date=2006&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4741%2F1%2FHP_versus_CP_for_web.htm&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Prof+Max++(2006)+HETEROPHENOMENOLOGY+VERSUS+CRITICAL+PHENOMENOLOGY.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F4741%2F