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Getting real about experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2005

Inez Myin-Germeys*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology, Maastricht University, 6200MDMaastricht, The Netherlands
Erik Myin*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, B1050Brussels, Belgiumhttp://homepages.vub.ac.be/~emyin

Abstract:

The idea that experience is essentially subjective rather than of the real world is paradoxical and deeply flawed. The external world is, much more than a mere constraint, essential to meaningfully describe experience and neural activity. This is illustrated by an analysis of the phenomenology of veridical perception and by the study of experience in psychopathology by the Experience Sampling Method (ESM).

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2004

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