 Of course, there are important questions about the nature and reliability of introspectionist methodology. (We refer readers to the entries on introspection and on self-knowledge for relevant discussions.) The important points for present purposes are these. First, the role introspection plays in addressing philosophical disputes may vary, the basic division being between direct methods and the method that employs phenomenal contrast arguments. Second, the uses of introspection in the analytic tradition are intended to yield empirically grounded psychological claims about the phenomenal character of moral experiences, employing, inductive and abductive methods. As we have already noted, this empirically grounded methodology and its aims differ sharply from the methods and aims one finds in the Phenomenological tradition to which we now turn.