Introspection : first-person access in science and agency / Maja Spener.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spener, Maja, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Introspection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024.

Summary:

Maja Spener offers an original systematic account of introspection which clarifies its epistemic importance in theorising about the mind. She draws together philosophy and psychology, distingushing between introspection as inquiry and as mental capacity, and presents a new framework for the assessment of introspective methods.

Contents:

Cover

Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Preface

Epigraph

1: Introspective Access and Introspective Method

1.1 The Basic Framework

1.1.1 The Reliability of Introspective Access

1.1.2 The Reliability of Introspective Methods

1.2 Calibration and Privacy

1.3 A Brief Outline of the Book

PART I: INTROSPECTIVE INQUIRY: Introduction

2: The Problem of Self-Observation

2.1 Mill and James on the Problem of Self-Observation

2.2 Wundt on the Problem of Self-Observation

2.3 Gestalt Psychology and Phenomenological Method

2.4 Self-Observation in Early Psychology

3: Varieties of Introspective Methods in Introspectionist Psychology

3.1 The Method of Systematic Introspection

3.2 Müller and the Methods of Direct Introspection and Careful Retrospection

3.2.1 Müller's Critique of Systematic Introspection

3.2.2 The Methods of Restricted Inner Attention and Careful Retrospection

3.3 Wundt and the Method of Controlled Inner Apprehension

3.3.1 Wundt's Critique of Systematic Introspection

3.3.2 The Method of Controlled Inner Apprehension

3.4 The Complexity of Introspective Methods

4: The Problem of Response Bias

4.1 A Methodological Challenge

4.2 Subjective and Objective Thresholds of Perception

4.3 Response Bias and Subjective Report

4.4 The Distinction between Objective and Subjective Measures of Consciousness

5: Subjective Measures of Consciousness

5.1 Confidence Ratings

5.2 Awareness Ratings

5.3 Subjective Access and Introspection

5.4 Common Sense and Metacognition

5.5 The Necessity of Introspection in Consciousness Science

6: The Reliability of Subjective Measures of Consciousness

6.1 A Middle Ground Position

6.2 Global versus Local Unreliability

PART II: INTROSPECTIVE KINDS: Introduction.

7: Introspective Access

7.1 Inner Attention

7.2 Inner Apprehension

7.3 Retrospection

7.4 The Basic Pictures and Empirical Research

8: The Explanatory Role of Introspective Access

8.1 Our Thin Common Ground

8.2 Introspective Access and Self-Knowledge

8.3 Explaining Our Situational Agency

8.4 Introspective Access in Self-Management

8.5 Calibrating Introspective Contents

8.6 Pluralism about Introspective Access

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2024.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 16, 2023).

ISBN:

0-19-190420-1

0-19-263742-8

0-19-263743-6

OCLC:

1409615825