A defense of introspection from within

Constructivist Foundations

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 269-279

  Bitbol, Michel ^a   Petitmengin, Claire ^b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b INSTITUT MINES TELECOM   (France)

Author keywords

Awareness; Consciousness; Epistemology; Experience; First person; Introspection; Non representa tionalism; Phenomenology; Subjectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880653740     PISSN: 1782348X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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