Inner experience and neuroscience : merging both perspectives / Donald D. Price and James J. Barrell.

By:

Price, Donald D [author.]

Contributor(s):

Barrell, James J [author.]

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780262305204
0262305208
9781283541657
1283541653
9786613854100
6613854107

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Inner experience and neuroscience.DDC classification:

153 23

LOC classification:

BF204.5 .P75 2012eb

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Contents:

Developing a science of human meanings and consciousness -- Lessons learned from psychophysics -- Psychophysical methods and human meanings -- Describing, characterizing, and understanding phenomenal experience -- Merging the qualitative with the quantitative: the roles of desire and expectation in emotions -- Choosing -- Human pain and suffering -- Second pain: a model for explaining a conscious experience? -- Mysterious and not so mysterious mechanisms of placebo responses -- Hypnotic and other background states of consciousness -- Using experiential paradigms to extend science and help solve human problems?

Summary: A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Donald Price and James Barrell show how a science of human experience can be developed through a strategy that integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific research on human experience, as well as their philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical results associated with such phenomena as pain and suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and background states of consciousness. In the course of their argument, they draw on empirical results that include qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of experiential and natural science can extend efforts to understand such difficult issues as free will and complex negative emotions including jealousy and greed.

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"A Bradford Book."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-340) and index.

A proposal for merging a science of human consciousness with neuroscience and psychology. The study of consciousness has advanced rapidly over the last two decades. And yet there is no clear path to creating models for a direct science of human experience or for integrating its insights with those of neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy. In Inner Experience and Neuroscience, Donald Price and James Barrell show how a science of human experience can be developed through a strategy that integrates experiential paradigms with methods from the natural sciences. They argue that the accuracy and results of both psychology and neuroscience would benefit from an experiential perspective and methods. Price and Barrell describe phenomenologically based methods for scientific research on human experience, as well as their philosophical underpinnings, and relate these to empirical results associated with such phenomena as pain and suffering, emotions, and volition. They argue that the methods of psychophysics are critical for integrating experiential and natural sciences, describe how qualitative and quantitative methods can be merged, and then apply this approach to the phenomena of pain, placebo responses, and background states of consciousness. In the course of their argument, they draw on empirical results that include qualitative studies, quantitative studies, and neuroimaging studies. Finally, they propose that the integration of experiential and natural science can extend efforts to understand such difficult issues as free will and complex negative emotions including jealousy and greed.