?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=AN+EPISTEMOLOGY+FOR+THE+STUDY+OF+CONSCIOUSNESS+&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Prof+Max&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Perceptual+Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Psychophysics&rft.description=This+is+a+prepublication+version+of+the+final+chapter+from+the+Blackwell+Companion+to+Consciousness.+In+it+I+re-examine+the+basic+conditions+required+for+a+study+of+conscious+experiences+in+the+light+of+progress+made+in+recent+years+in+the+field+of+consciousness+studies.+I+argue+that+neither+dualist+nor+reductionist+assumptions+about+subjectivity+versus+objectivity+and+the+privacy+of+experience+versus+the+public+nature+of+scientific+observations+allow+an+adequate+understanding+of+how+studies+of+consciousness+actually+proceed.+The+chapter+examines+the+sense+in+which+the+experimenter+is+also+a+subject%2C+the+sense+in+which+all+experienced+phenomena+are+private+and+subjective%2C+the+different+senses+in+which+a+phenomenon+can+nevertheless+be+public+and+observations+of+it+objective%2C+and+the+conditions+for+intra-subjective+and+intersubjective+repeatability.+The+chapter+goes+on+to+re-examine+the+empirical+method+and+how+methods+used+in+psychology+differ+from+those+used+in+physics.+I+argue+that+a+reflexive+understanding+of+these+relationships+supports+a+form+of+%E2%80%9Ccritical+phenomenology%E2%80%9D+that+fits+consciousness+studies+smoothly+into+science.+&rft.publisher=Blackwell&rft.contributor=Velmans%2C+Max&rft.contributor=Schneider%2C+Susan&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6451%2F1%2FVelmans_epistemology_chapter_for_Blackwell.pdf&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Prof+Max++(2007)+AN+EPISTEMOLOGY+FOR+THE+STUDY+OF+CONSCIOUSNESS.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F6451%2F