Course content 2013/14
Reading:
Week 2 (no class in week 1)
- Brie Gertler, Self-Knowledge
- Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement, chapter 1
- Quassim Cassam, 'Self-Knowledge', Oxford Bibliographies
Week 3
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, draft, chapters 1 and 2 (draft chapters are posted below).
- Gareth Evans, The Varieties of Reference, chapter. 7.4
- Richard Moran, Précis of Authority and Estrangement in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2004
- David Finkelstein, 'From Transparency to Expressivism', in James Conant and Gunther Abel (eds.) Rethinking Epistemology, volume 2
- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow, Part 1
- Richard Nisbett and Lee Ross, Human Inference: Strategies and Shortcomings of Social Judgement, chapter 8.
- Gilbert Harman, Change in View, chapter 4
Week 4:
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, draft, chapters 3, 4 and 13 (draft chapters are posted below).
- Eric Schwitzgebel, 'Self-Ignorance', in Jeeloo Liu and John Perry (eds.) Consciousness and the Self.
- Stephen Hetherington, Self-Knowledge: Beginning Philosophy Right Here and Now, chapter 4.
- Gilbert Harman, 'Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental Attribution Error', in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1999.
- J. David Velleman, Practical Reflection, pp. 241-4.
- Martha Nussbaum, 'Love's Knowledge', in Love's Knowledge.
- Charles Taylor, 'Self-Interpreting Animals', in Philosophical Papers, vol. 1.
- Harry Frankfurt, 'Identification and Externality', in The Importance of What We Care About'.
Week 5: Class cancelled
Week 7:
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, chapter 6, 7 and 8.
- Edward Craig, The Mind of God and the Works of Man, chapter 1.
- William Child, Causality, Interpretation, and the Mind, chapter 1.
- Daniel Dennett, 'Three Kinds of Intentional Psychology', in The Intentional Stance.
- Donald Davidson, 'Radical Interpretation', in The Essential Davidson.
- Matthew Boyle, 'Essentially Rational Animals', in James Conant and Gunther Abel (eds.) Rethinking Epistemology, volume 2.
- John McDowell, 'Funcionalism and Anomalous Monism', in Mind, Value, and Reality.
- Stephen Stich, The Fragmentation of Reason, chapters 1 and 2.
Week 8:
(a) Transparency approaches:
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, chapter 9.
- Gareth Evans, The Varieties of Reference, chapter 7.
- Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement.
- Richard Moran et al. 'Symposium on Authority and Estrangement', Philosophical and Phenomenological Research 2004.
- Richard Moran, 'Self-Knowledge, "Transparency", and the Forms of Activity', in D. Smithies and D. Stoljar (eds.) Introspection and Consciousness.
- David Finkelstein, 'From Transparency to Expressivism', in J. Conant and G. Abel (eds.) Rethinking Epistemology, volume 2.
- Brie Gertler, 'Self-Knowledge and the Transparency of Belief', in Anthony Hatzimoysis (ed.) Self-Knowledge.
- Jonathan Way, 'Self-Knowledge and the Limits of Transparency', Analysis 2007.
(b) Inner sense approaches:
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, chapter 10.
- David Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of the Mind, pp. 95-99 and chapter 15.
- Sydney Shoemaker, 'Self-Knowledge and Inner Sense', in The First-Person Perspective and Other Essays.
- Paul Boghossian, 'Content and Self-Knowledge', in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.) Externalism and Self-Knowledge.
- Alex Byrne, 'Introspection', Philosophical Topics 2005.
- Alvin Goldman, Simulating Minds, chapter 9.
Week 9:
- Quassim Cassam, Self-Knowledge for Humans, chapters 11 and 12.
- Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, chapter 6.
- Paul Boghossian, 'Content and Self-Knowledge', in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.) Externalism and Self-Knowledge.
- Daryl Bem, “Self-Perception Theory”, in L. Berkowitz (ed.) Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, volume. 6.
- Krista Lawlor, 'Knowing What One Wants', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2009.
- Peter Carruthers, 'How We Know Our Own Minds', Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2009.