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introspectionism

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  • This culture of hatred has a counterpart in the West †the culture of self-loathing and morbid introspectionism that is endemic to Western academia, media and “progressive” politics.

    Think Progress » Matthews: War in Iraq United ‘the Disparate Pieces of Shia Radicalism into a Frankenstein Monster’ 2006

  • Brentano rather argued a form of introspectionism: doing psychology from an empirical standpoint means for him to describe what one directly experiences in inner perception, from a first-person point of view.

    Franz Brentano Huemer, Wolfgang 2007

  • But contemporary epistemology no longer hews to Descartes's rigid introspectionism.

    Social Epistemology Goldman, Alvin 2006

  • Watson's basic objection to introspectionism was that it was an attempt to form a science on very unreliable data about which experimenters could reach no agreement, and which purported to reveal facts about a nonexistent subject matter, namely consciousness.

    BEHAVIORISM R. S. PETERS 1968

  • They differ from the older introspectionism in concentrating on the total field of awareness and its sensitive explora - tion.

    HAPPINESS AND PLEASURE ABRAHAM EDEL 1968

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