Introspection First-Person Access in Science and Agency

Maja Spener, Associate Professor in Philosophy, University of Birmingham

Maja Spener is a philosopher of mind and psychology/cognitive science. She studied PPE at St Hilda's College, Oxford and obtained her PhD at King's College London in 2003. She held a Jacobsen Research Fellowship at UCL, a postdoctoral fellowship in Antwerp, a lectureship at the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University, and a Junior Research Fellowship at St Catherine's College, Oxford. She is currently associate professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Birmingham.

1. Introspective Access and Introspective Method
2. The Problem of Self-Observation
3. Varieties of Introspective Methods in Introspectionist Psychology
4. The Problem of Response Bias
5. Subjective Measures of Consciousness
6. The Reliability of Subjective Measures of Consciousness
7. Introspective access
8. The Explanatory Role of Introspective Access
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