Subjectivity in heterophenomenology

Heterophenomenology reconsidered

I am grateful to Alva Noë for organizing this most stimulating and informative congregation of essays. They have opened my eyes to aspects of my own work, and the different contexts into which it must be shoehorned, and forced me to articulate, and revise, points about which I have been less than clear. Instead of providing seriatim answers to each essay, I am running my reactions together, tak...

Heterophenomenology: Heavy-handed sleight-of-hand

We argue that heterophenomenology both overand under-populates the intentional realm. For example, when one is involved in coping, one’s mind does not contain beliefs. Since the heterophenomenologist interprets all intentional commitment as belief, he necessarily overgenerates the belief contents of the mind. Since beliefs cannot capture the normative aspect of coping and perceiving, any method...

Subjectivity in Risk Analysis

Risk values are arrived at via the process of risk analysis. In many quarters, this is assumed to be objective, and its results the risk values to be correct. Yet, as will be shown in subsequent sections of this report, all stages of the process involve subjectivity, in some cases to a considerable extent. Always there is reliance on judgement, and, as in all cases in which judgement is called ...

Subjectivity in Inductive Inference

This paper examines circumstances under which subjectivity enhances the effectiveness of inductive reasoning. We consider a game in which Fate chooses a data generating process and agents are characterized by inference rules that may be purely objective (or data-based) or may incorporate subjective considerations. The basic intuition is that agents who invoke no subjective considerations are do...

Subjectivity in Stylistic Assessment