Can conscious experience be described accurately? Can we give reliable accounts of our sensory experiences and pains, our inner speech and imagery, our felt emotions? The question is central not only to our humanistic understanding of who we are but also to the burgeoning scientific field of consciousness studies. The two authors of Describing Inner Experience disagree on the answer: Russell Hurlburt, a psychologist, argues that improved methods of introspective reporting make accurate accounts of inner experience possible; Eric Schwitzgebel, a philosopher, believes that any introspective reporting is inevitably prone to error. In this book the two discuss to what extent it is possible to describe our inner experience accurately. 
Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel recruited a subject, "Melanie," to report on her conscious experience using Hurlburt's Descriptive Experience Sampling method (in which the subject is cued by random beeps to describe her conscious experience). The heart of the book is Melanie's accounts, Hurlburt and Schwitzgebel's interviews with her, and their subsequent discussions while studying the transcripts of the interviews. In this way the authors' dispute about the general reliability of introspective reporting is steadily tempered by specific debates about the extent to which Melanie's particular reports are believable. Transcripts and audio files of the interviews will be available on the MIT Press website. 
 Describing Inner Experience? is not so much a debate as it is a collaboration, with each author seeking to refine his position and to replace partisanship with balanced critical judgment. The result is an illumination of major issues in the study of consciousness -- from two sides at once.

Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic (Bradford Books)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Schwitzgebel, Eric

Hurlburt, Russell T.

Mental Health

Mit Pr

Following up on his groundbreaking 1990 work Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience, Dr. Hurlburt delineates the development of his descriptive sampling method across numerous case studies of depressed, anxious, bulimic, and borderline personalities. Though controversial, the method effectively demonstrates that an `introspective' technique can provide compelling, vivid descriptions of patients, as well as make distinctions between diagnostic groups.

Sampling Inner Experience in Disturbed Affect (Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy)

Springer

An unbeatable combination that will appeal to any learning style! Packaged with the free Personal Trainer CD-ROM, COMPREHENDING BEHAVIORAL STATISTICS makes statistics appealing and approachable to students with a variety of learning styles and backgrounds. Students who learn best by READING find Hurlburt's explanations-which have been crafted and revised based on his own students' feedback-to be exceptionally clear. Students who learn better by LISTENING find the audio/visual "lectlets" on the accompanying Personal Trainer CD-ROM invaluable. Covering each topic in the text, the lectlets include interactive review questions with immediate feedback that engage students who learn best by INTERACTING. For VISUAL learners, the text includes more than 400 illustrations (twice as many as most texts), as well as Hurlburt's free ESTAT software on the accompanying CD-ROM. ESTAT is a unique program that allows students to practice the eyeball-estimation of basic concepts so that they can understand at a deeper level the statistics they are computing. Faculty appreciate the textbook's accuracy and focus on timely topics as well as its innovative pedagogy: Hurlburt uses a progressive, cumulative integration and review of concepts so students keep fundamental concepts "fresh" as they progress through the course.

Bundle: Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (with CD-ROM), 4th + InfoTrac College Edition

Science & Math

Mathematics

Cengage Learning'

Bundle: Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (with CD-ROM), 4th + Study Guide

You live your entire waking life immersed in your inner experiences (thoughts, feelings, sensations, etc.) - private phenomena created by you, just for you, your own way. Despite their intimacy and ubiquity, you probably don't know the characteristics of your own inner phenomena; neither does psychology or consciousness science. Investigating Pristine Inner Experience explores how to apprehend inner experience in high fidelity. This book will transform your view of your own inner experience, awaken you to experiential differences between people, and thereby reframe your thinking about psychology and consciousness science, which banned the study of inner experience for most of a century and yet continued to recognize its fundamental importance. The author, a pioneer in using beepers to explore inner experience, draws on his 35 years of studies to provide fascinating and provocative views of everyday inner experience and experience in bulimia, adolescence, the elderly, schizophrenia, Tourette's syndrome, virtuosity, and so on.

Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth

Behavioral Sciences

Cambridge University Press

While this book provides the same material found in most introductory statistics texts, it goes beyond the standard by teaching students how to estimate statistics before computations are performed. The ESTAT software helps students build this skill by allowing them to learn to make accurate eyeball-estimates before ever touching a calculator. These estimation techniques are provided for both descriptive and inferential statistics. The ESTAT software is optional with the text, students can learn estimation from information in the book alone if you so choose.

Comprehending Behavioral Statistics

Psychology & Counseling

Brooks/Cole Pub. Co.

ESTAT software helps students learn to estimate statistics before computations are performed. They build this skill by learning to make accurate "eyeball-estimates" before ever touching a calculator. These estimation techniques are provided for both descriptive and inferential statistics.

This Macintosh version of the easiest-to-use estimation program available gives students practice in estimating statistics using Russell Hurlburt's "eyeball estimation" techniques. For example, ESTAT presents a random series of histograms and asks the student to eyeball-estimate the mean and standard deviation of each; ESTAT presents a random series of scatter diagrams and asks the student to eyeball-estimate the correlation coefficient of each; and ESTAT presents a random series of scatter diagrams and asks the student to eyeball-estimate each best-fitting regression line.

Estat

Computers & Technology

Wadsworth Pub. Co.

This Windows version of the easiest-to-use estimation program available gives students practice in estimating statistics using Russell Hurlburt's "eyeball estimation" techniques. For example, ESTAT presents a random series of histograms and asks the student to eyeball-estimate the mean and standard deviation of each; ESTAT presents a random series of scatter diagrams and asks the student to eyeball-estimate the correlation coefficient of each; and ESTAT presents a random series of scatter diagrams and asks the student to eyeball-estimate each best-fitting regression line.

ESTAT for Comprehending Behavioral Statistics Windows

Wadsworth Publishing

This isn't just another variation on the same theme--this textbook offers something new and better for the course. Hurlburt's unique, eyeball-estimation techniques, introduced in the first edition of this text, have won praise from faculty and students. Hurlburt's approach trains students to think critically and discriminate among various statistical techniques. Using Hurlburt's methods, students learn to "read" a graph of data and quickly predict what the statistic will show. Hurlburt also effectively uses repetition and a progressive, cumulative integration of concepts, so students build upon what they learn as they progress through the course rather than learning individual topics in isolation. Hurlburt's approach not only motivates students, but instills in them a true conceptual understanding of what's going on behind the mechanical calculations of statistical procedures. This new edition retains those elements that make the text so noteworthy, while it incorporates more "traditional" content and computer exercises that can be worked with standard statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, or Minitab. Responding to the comments of users, Hurlburt has modified his presentation of the eyeball-estimation techniques -- emphasizing them in the descriptive statistics sections, but de-emphasizing them in the inferential statistics sections.

International Thomson Publishing Company

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Describing Inner Experience?: Proponent Meets Skeptic (Bradford Books)

Sampling Inner Experience in Disturbed Affect (Emotions, Personality, and Psychotherapy)

Bundle: Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (with CD-ROM), 4th + InfoTrac College Edition

Bundle: Comprehending Behavioral Statistics (with CD-ROM), 4th + Study Guide

Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth

Comprehending Behavioral Statistics

Comprehending Behavioral Statistics

Estat

ESTAT for Comprehending Behavioral Statistics Windows

Comprehending Behavioral Statistics