?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=HOW+TO+SEPARATE+CONCEPTUAL+ISSUES+FROM+EMPIRICAL+ONES+IN+THE+STUDY+OF+CONSCIOUSNESS&rft.creator=Velmans%2C+Prof+Max&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=Modern+consciousness+studies+are+in+a+healthy+state%2C+with+many+progressive+empirical+programmes+in+cognitive+science%2C+neuroscience+and+related+sciences%2C+using+relatively+conventional+third-person+research+methods.+However+not+all+the+problems+of+consciousness+can+be+resolved+in+this+way.+These+problems+may+be+grouped+into+problems+that+require+empirical+advance%2C+those+that+require+theoretical+advance%2C+and+those+that+require+a+re-examination+of+some+of+our+pre-theoretical+assumptions.+I+give+examples+of+these%2C+and+focus+on+two+problems%E2%80%94what+consciousness+is%2C+and+what+consciousness+does%E2%80%94that+require+all+three.++In+this%2C+careful+attention+to+conscious+phenomenology+and+finding+an+appropriate+way+to+relate+first-person+evidence+to+third-person+evidence+appears+to+be+central+to+progress.+But+we+may+also+need+to+re-examine+what+we+take+to+be+%E2%80%9Cnatural+facts%E2%80%9D+about+the+world%2C+and+how+we+can+know+them.+The+same+appears+to+be+true+for+a+trans-cultural+understanding+of+consciousness+that+combines+classical+Indian+phenomenological+methods+with+the+third-person+methods+of+Western+science.&rft.publisher=Elsevier&rft.contributor=Banerjee%2C+Dr+Rahul&rft.contributor=Chakrabarti%2C+Dr+Bikas&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Book+Chapter&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5380%2F1%2FConceptual_vs_emprical_issues.pdf&rft.identifier=++Velmans%2C+Prof+Max++(2007)+HOW+TO+SEPARATE+CONCEPTUAL+ISSUES+FROM+EMPIRICAL+ONES+IN+THE+STUDY+OF+CONSCIOUSNESS.++%5BBook+Chapter%5D++++(In+Press)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5380%2F