The journal "Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences" has some downloadable articles from Vol 6 (2007)... cue downloadings varieuse... Siewert, Noë, Thompson, all concerned to discuss Dennett's heterophenomenological method; and Dennett's reply to various authors from that issue.
As far as i can see, others criticise Dennett for his de-emphasis of first-person reporting as a possible methodology, while Dennett, typically, seeks to correct what he sees as the various misinterpretations of his method, with his own brand of gentle needling of opponents combined with imaginative "what about this?" scenarios.
Particularly enjoyed Dennett's version on the "I am great"-storyline ([c] Dylan Drummond, Andy Thompson, and men throughout the language phase of our natural history), where in conversation Ned Block says "The letters seemed blurry" as a first-person report and Dennett replies: "So, did they seem to you to be difficult to read because they were blurry, or did they seem blurry because they were difficult to read?" - goddim!
Also Dennett makes an amusing remark about how our cultural and intersubjective backgrounds may affect a supposedly controlled experiment - delays in word completion, where the words presented are "cun-" and "shi-".
Now then, Haikonen's article... plenty of relevant issues there to be considered... next week's essay project.
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