Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Introduction

Gertler, Brie. "Self-Knowledge." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015. (Edward N. Zalta (ed.))

Cassam, Quassim. "Know Thy Self—Really," The New York Times, December 7, 2014.
2 The Wittgensteinian Legacy

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Philosophical Investigations." (PDF - 2.5MB) Basil Blackwell Limited, 1958.

Wright, Crispin. "Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy." Oxford Scholarship Online, 2000.

McDowell, John. "Response to Crispin Wright." Oxford Scholarship Online, 2000.

Optional

Moran, Richard. "I'll have to get back to you." The Times Literary Supplement (2015): 28.
3 Inner Sense I

Armstrong, D. M. A Materialist Theory of the Mind. Routledge, 1993. ISBN: 9780415100311.

Buy at MIT Press Churchland, Paul M. Matter and Consciousness: A Contemporary Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind. MIT Press, 1988. ISBN: 9780262530743. [Preview with Google Books]

Buy at MIT Press Lycan, William G. Consciousness and Experience. A Bradford Book, 1996. ISBN: 9780262121972. [Preview with Google Books]

Shoemaker, Sydney. Chapter 10 In The First-person Perspective and Other Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521568715. [Preview with Google Books]

Optional

Nichols, Shaun, and Stephen P. Stich. "Mindreading: An Integrated Account of Pretence, Self Awareness, and Understanding Other Minds." Oxford Scholarship Online, 2004.
4 Inner Sense II, and Shoemaker's Rationalism

Shoemaker, Sydney. Chapters 2 and 11 in The First-person Perspective and Other Essays. Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN: 9780521568715. [Preview with Google Books]

Siewert, Charles. "Self-knowledge and Rationality: Shoemaker on Self-blindness." In Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge. Routledge, 2003. ISBN: 9780754616474.
5 Ryleanism

Cassam, Quassim. Chapters 11 and 12 in Self-Knowledge for Humans. Oxford University Press, 2015. [Preview with Google Books]

Ryle, Gilbert. Chapter 6 in The Concept of Mind: 60th Anniversary Edition. Routledge, 2009. ISBN: 9780415485470. [Preview with Google Books]

Carruthers, Peter. Chapters 1, 2 sections 4–6, and chapter 3 sections 1 and 4–6 in The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199685141. [Preview with Google Books]

Byrne, Alex. "Review of The Opacity of Mind: An Integrative Theory of Self-Knowledge." Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2012.
6 Transparency I

Moran, Richard. Self-Knowledge, Transparency, and the Forms of Activity. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2012.

Paul, Sarah K. "The Transparency of Mind." Philosophy Compass 9, no. 5 (2014): 295–303.

Coliva, Annalisa. Review of Quassim Cassam "Self-Knowledge for Humans." Analysis, 2015.

Optional

Moran, Richard. Chapters 3–4 in Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge. Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780691089454. [Preview with Google Books]
7 Transparency II

Boyle, Matthew. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Transparency and Reflection." (PDF)

———. "Transparent Self-Knowledge." Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 85, no. 1 (2011): 223–41.

———. "Critical Study: Cassam on Self-Knowledge for Humans." European Journal of Philosophy 23, no. 2 (2015): 337–48.

Setiya, Kieran. "Transparency and Inference." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 112, no. 2pt2 (2012): 263–8.
8 Sensation

Gertler, Brie. "Renewed Acquaintance." Oxford Scholarship Online, 2012.

Optional

Gertler, Brie. "Self-Knowledge and the Demands of Rational Agency." (PDF) (2015).
9 Perception

Dretske, Fred. "Introspection." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, New Series 94 (1994): 263–78.

———. "How Do You Know You Are Not a Zombie?"

Hill, Christopher. "How to Study Introspection." Journal of Consciousness Studies 18, no. 1 (2011): 21–43.

Optional

Stoljar, Daniel. "Knowledge of Perception." Oxford Scholarship Online, 2012.

Byrne, Alex. "Knowing What I See." In Introspection and Consciousness. Edited by Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar. Oxford University Press, 2012, p. 183. [Preview with Google Books]
10 Review Session No new readings assigned. Students reviewed and discussed material covered thus far.
11 Neo-expressivism

Bar-On, Dorit. "'Expression, Truth, and Reality: Some Variations on Themes from Wright'. Oxford Scholarship Online, 2013.

Bar-On, Dorit and, Kate Nolfi. "Knowing Our Own Beliefs."

Bar-On, Dorit. "Externalism and Skepticism: Recognition, Expression, and Self-Knowledge."
12 Desire and Emotion

Ashwell, Lauren. "Deep, Dark…or Transparent? Knowing our Desires." Philosophical Studies 165, no. 1 (2013): 245–56.

Fernandez, Jordi. Transparent Minds: A Study of Self Knowledge. Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 9780199664023. [Preview with Google Books]

Optional

Lawlor, Krista. "Knowing What One Wants." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research LXXIX, no. 1 (2009): 47–75.

Byrne, Alex. "Knowing What I Want." In Consciousness and the Self: New Essays. Edited by J. Liu and J. Perry. Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN: 9781107414716.

Barz, Wolfgang. "Transparent Introspection of Wishes." Philosophical Studies 172, no. 8 (2015): 1993–2023.
13 Intention

Paul, Sarah K. "The Transparency of Intention." Philosophical Studies 172, no. 6, (2015): 1529–48.

Setiya, Kieran. "Knowledge of Intention." In Essays on Anscombe's Intention. Harvard University Press, 2011, pp. 170–97. ISBN: 9780674051027. [Preview with Google Books]

Byrne, Alex. This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader."Transparency, Belief, Intention." (PDF) Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 85, no. 1 (2011): 201–21.