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RTG 2386: Extrospection. External access to higher cognitive processes

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

RTG 2386: Extrospection. External access to higher cognitive processes

Universitätsplatz 2

39106 Magdeburg

Tel.:+49 391 6701

Fax:+49 391 6711115

http://www.mind-and-brain.de/rtg-2386/

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Conscious processes like states of emotion, perception, belief formation, or mind-reading, are of essential importance in philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and psychiatry. It is quite controversial, though, to what extent these processes can be captured adequately by means of extrospection. The reason for this controversy is that extrospective methods are restricted to indirect external evidence. Introspection, by contrast, has long been treated as privileged, given its direct first-person access to these processes.

The present project aims at a comprehensive epistemological, historical and empirical assessment of extrospection. As a working hypothesis, we assume that there is an epistemic symmetry between extrospection and introspection: What can be known by way of first-person methods can be known by way of third-person methods as well, at least in principle. While we do not deny the obvious insufficiencies of current extrospective methods, we hypothesize that they can be overcome by future scientific, methodological, and technological developments.

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