?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Problems+in+the+%22functional%22+investigations+of+consciousness&rft.creator=Overgaard%2C+Morten&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=This+article+presents+the+view+that+the+%C2%93problem+of+consciousness%C2%94+%C2%96+per+definition+%C2%96+can+not+be+seen+as+a+strictly+scientific+or+strictly+philosophical+problem.+The+first+idea%2C+especially%2C+leads+to+important+difficulties%3A+First+of+all%2C+the+idea+has+in+most+cases+implied+some+rather+superficial+reductionistic+or+functionalistic+a+priori+assumptions%2C+and%2C+secondly%2C+it+can+be+shown+that+some+of+the+most+commonly+used+empirical+methods+in+these+regards+are+inadequate.+Especially+so+in+the+case+of+contrastive+analysis%2C+widely+used+in+cognitive+neuroscience.+However%2C+this+criticism+does+not+lead+to+the+conclusion+that+scientific+methods+are+inadequate+as+such%2C+only+that+they+always+work+on+a+pre-established+background+of+theory%2C+of+which+one+must+be+explicit.&rft.date=2000&rft.type=Other&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1982%2F1%2FProblems_in_the_functional_investigations_of_consciousness.htm&rft.identifier=++Overgaard%2C+Morten++(2000)+Problems+in+the+%22functional%22+investigations+of+consciousness.+++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1982%2F