Gordon M. Burghardt (1994) Evolution and the Analysis of Private Experience
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Psycoloquy 5(73): Evolution and the Analysis of Private Experience
EVOLUTION AND THE ANALYSIS OF PRIVATE EXPERIENCE
Book Review of Rakover on Metapsychology
Gordon M. Burghardt
Department of Psychology
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0900
BURGHD@UTKVX.UTK.EDU
Abstract
Rakover (1990) raises many important issues but he is
unduly pessimistic about the possibilities for scientific knowledge
concerning many aspects of the phenomenon of private experience in
human and nonhuman animals. His position may reflect the generally
conservative stance philosophical analysis attempts to impose on
"frontier" natural science.
Keywords
behavior, causality, experimentation, explanation,
introspection, mind-body problem, observation, philosophy,
psychology, reductionism, science, theory.
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