Psychology and Experience [Paperback]

A thought-provoking study which evaluates the contrasting methods and philosophies of contemporary psychology.If personal experience is the basic raw materal for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalise or deny it? Here, Benjamin Bradley presents a thought provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalised within the scientific discipline of psychology (research and teaching). Arguing that an experience-based approach to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Professor Bradley takes a bold and intial step in reclaiming the Enlightenments vision for the discipline.If personal experience is the basic raw materal for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalise or deny it? Here, Benjamin Bradley presents a thought provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalised within the scientific discipline of psychology (research and teaching). Arguing that an experience-based approach to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Professor Bradley takes a bold and intial step in reclaiming the Enlightenments vision for the discipline.If personal experience is the basic raw material for psychology, why do all the major psychologies of the past century find reason to marginalize or deny it? Benjamin Bradley presents a thought-provoking study which explores the way our everyday experience of life has been marginalized within the scientific discipline of psychology. Arguing that an experience-based approach to psychology should complement the more traditional scientific approach, Bradley takes a bold initial step towards reclaiming the Enlightenments vision for the discipline.Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Learning from experience; 3. From here to synchrony; 4. What to make of coincidence; 5. The topography of intersubjective space; 6. The two l3,