?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Intersubjective+Science&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Max&rft.subject=Epistemology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Science&rft.description=The+study+of+consciousness+in+modern+science+is+hampered+by+deeply+ingrained%2C+dualist+presuppositions+about+the+nature+of+consciousness.+In+particular%2C+conscious+experiences+are+thought+to+be+private+and+subjective%2C+contrasting+with+physical+phenomena+which+are+public+and+objective.+In+the+present+article%2C+I+argue+that+all+observed+phenomena+are%2C+in+a+sense%2C+private+to+a+given+observer%2C+although+there+are+some+events+to+which+there+is+public+access.+Phenomena+can+be+objective+in+the+sense+of+intersubjective%2C+investigators+can+be+objective+in+the+sense+of+truthful+or+dispassionate%2C+and+procedures+can+be+objective+in+being+well-specified%2C+but+observed+phenomena+cannot+be+objective+in+the+sense+of+being+observer-free.+Phenomena+are+only+repeatable+in+the+sense+that+they+are+judged+by+a+community+of+observers+to+be+tokens+of+the+same+type.+Stripped+of+its+dualist+trappings+the+empirical+method+becomes+if+you+carry+out+these+procedures+you+will+observe+or+experience+these+results+-+which+applies+as+much+to+a+science+of+consciousness+as+it+does+to+physics.&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F387%2F1%2Fintsci.html&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Max++(1999)+Intersubjective+Science.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F387%2F