Book Review: Maja Spener, _Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency_ (2024, OUP)

Maja Spener’s Introspection: First-Person Access in Science and Agency (Spener 2024) is an invaluable contribution to the debate about the nature and reliability of introspection. By sifting it through a novel, illuminating, and very much needed conceptual framework, the book lays the foundation for that debate to substantially move forward. The book’s main aim is to offer a detailed diagnosis of introspection’s epistemological shortcomings, provide the tools for a careful analysis of its limitations and methodological potential, and open up moderately optimistic prospects with respect to its use in science.