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Theory & Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 3, 365-379 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0959354308089790

Special Section: Mind the Methodology

Comparing Heterophenomenology and Neurophenomenology as Methodologies for the Scientific Study of Consciousness

Tjeerd van de Laar

RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN, tvandelaar7{at}gmail.com

In this paper I compare heterophenomenology and neurophenomenology as methodologies for a science of consciousness. I give introductions of heterophenomenology (HP) and neurophenomenology (NP), respectively. Than I briefly relate HP and NP to mainstream cognitive science methodology and to each other. I claim that although HP and NP are indeed different methodologies for studying consciousness, in practice it will be very hard to decide on which methodology we should prefer since, given the research that is currently available, both methodologies seem to allow for the same range of experiments. Given the fact that HP excludes the validity of conclusions drawn by means of NP, it seems that we do have to choose between them, nonetheless. My goal is, however, to see whether there currently are reasons for rejecting HP or NP as unreliable or invalid across the board. I conclude that for the time being we had better keep both HP and NP in the running.

Key Words: heterophenomenology • methodology • neurophenomenology • science of consciousness


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