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SUMMARY:Should a Science of Cognition use First-Person Methods?
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TZID:Europe/Berlin
LOCATION:Tübingen\, Germany
DESCRIPTION:<p>The use of first person methods in cognitive science has followed several cycles of acceptance and rejection. Arguments both for and against their use often refer to methodological considerations: either the role of first-person methods as providing essential scientific evidence\, or the inherent problems in collecting and interpreting such data.</p>\n<p>The aim of this workshop is to focus directly on the methodological questions surrounding first-person methods\, by addressing them from the different viewpoints across cognitive science\, philosophy of mind\, and philosophy of science. In particular\, philosophy of science offers a relatively untapped resource for investigating questions about measurement and operationalization\, so has much to offer current debates on this subject.</p>\n<p>The workshop will focus on the following sorts of questions:</p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are there scientific paradigms or areas of research for which first-person data is essential?</li>\n<li>Does first-person data differ from other scientific data? If so\, how? (E.g. is it really private or incorrigible?)</li>\n<li>Are there specific problems associated with collecting first-person data compared with other scientific data? (E.g. response bias\, demand characteristics)</li>\n<li>Given these problems\, how should first-person data be collected and interpreted? (E.g. methods for reducing response bias\, experimental design)</li>\n<li>What\, if anything\, can be learned from older debates about the use of first-person methods (e.g. against introspection)?</li>\n<li>Do these methodological problems raise further questions about how we should talk about first-person states? (E.g. are there phenomenal facts?)</li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>If you would like to give a commentary\, please send a CV\, and a brief response to the title of the workshop (max. 200 words)\, to&nbsp\;<a target="_blank">firstpersonmethods@googlemail.com</a>&nbsp\;by March 30th.</p>\n<p>Registration is free\, but space is limited\, so if you would like to attend the workshop\, please also email&nbsp\;<a target="_blank">firstpersonmethods@googlemail.com</a></p>
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