The main aims of this article are to alert potential teachers of a course on subjective experiences to some problems that may arise and to suggest some ways of dealing with them that have been found helpful by the writer. Although restricted to a particular definition of subjective experience, many of the problems are likely to be of concern in any course involving topics within the general family of “consciousness” concepts.
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