--- abstract: "Classical ways of viewing the relation of consciousness to the brain and physical world make it difficult to see how consciousness can be a subject of scientific study. In contrast to physical events, it seems to be private, subjective, and viewable only from a subject's first-person perspective. But much of psychology does investigate human experience, which suggests that classical ways of viewing these relations must be wrong. An alternative, Reflexive model is outlined along with it's consequences for methodology. Within this model the external phenomenal world is viewed as part-of consciousness, rather than apart-from it. Observed events are only \"public\" in the sense of \"private experience shared.\" Scientific observations are only \"objective\" in the sense of \"intersubjective.\" Observed phenomena are only \"repeatable\" in the sense that they are sufficiently similar to be taken for \"tokens\" of the same event \"type.\" This closes the gap between physical and psychological phenomena. Indeed, events out-there in the world can often be regarded as either physical or psychological depending on the network of relationships under consideration. " altloc: [] chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Velmans given: Max honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1993 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-03-13 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/02/43 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 243 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/243/1/practice.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: ~ issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'consciousness, subjective, intersubjective, objective, private, public, first-person, third-person, repeatability, symmetrical access, asymmetrical access, reflexive, science, reductionism' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:46 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:26:00 subjects: - cog-psy - phil-epist - phil-mind - phil-sci - physio-psy succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: A Reflexive Science of Consciousness type: preprint userid: 156 volume: ~