Gualtiero Piccinini | What Are First-Person Data?

First-person methods (and its associated data) have been scientifically and philosophically contentious. Are they pseudoscientific? Or simply pushing the bounds of scientific methodology? Obviously, I have no idea… so Prof. Gualtiero Piccinini (University of Missouri – St. Louis) provides a helpful introduction to the topic covering the key points of its history and the philosophical/scientific debate.

0:00 Why cover first-person methods & data?
2:26 First-person methods vs first-person data?
7:10 Are first-person data legitimate at all?
11:50 Phenomenology
13:26 First-person data is extracted from human behavior
18:25 Skepticism & arguments against first-person data
25:40 Psychophysics, introspectionists, behavioralists, cognitivists, and the origins of first-person data
35:20 Using new instruments & methods in science
46:00 Is this where the philosophers roam?

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