# Introspection First-Person Access **Opening (not a real abstract):** # Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency by Maja Spener ## Preface - The author's interest in introspection began during her PhD research in London in the late 1990s and early 2000s - Initial focus was on the philosophy of perception, but she became puzzled by how philosophers argued about perceptual experience using introspective evidence - The notion of introspective evidence seemed strange and hindered engagement in the debate about the nature of perceptual experience - PhD dissertation focused on this issue, supervised by Gabriel Segal and Michael Martin - Initially thought of introspection as a topic in the philosophy of perception, but gradually - Found it challenging due to the lack of a 'go-to' literature on introspection - Reading methodological discussions of early experimentalist psychologists like Wilhelm Wundt,