Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Self-knowledge (SK)

Convenors: Daniel Morgan, Michele Palmira and Carlota Serrahima  

 

 

The Reading Group will focus on the issue of how, if at all, we can have knowledge of our sensations, beliefs, and other mental states.

 

Some of the questions that will be taken up are the following: Do we know what mental states we are in (e.g. does an avowal such as "I'm in pain" represent one's knowledge that one is in pain, or does it express one's pain?)? And if so, is this knowledge attained in the same way as we get to know others' mental states (e.g. do we infer what kind of mental state we are in by looking at our behavior?)? If not, which methods enable us to acquire such distinctively first-personal knowledge (e.g. do we have a direct internal access to our mental states via introspection, or do we know which beliefs we have by looking at the states of affairs they represent?)? Does self-knowledge have the same features of our knowledge of external objects (e.g. is it more epistemically secure than, say, perceptual knowledge?)? How do phenomena such as thought insertion and self-deception affect our knowledge of ourselves?

 

The group will meet on Thursdays, from 13:00 to 15:00, at the Seminar Room of the ex-Departament de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència. 



Convenor:

Carlota Serrahima

Sessions

  • Self-knowledge and "inner sense". Lecture I: The object perception model

    Sydney Shoemaker (1994)

    13 October 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Introspection: Divided and Partly Eliminated

    Peter Carruthers (2010)

    20 October 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Self-Knowledge for Belief

    Jordi Fernández (2013). Transparent Minds: a Study of Self-Knowledge

    (Chapter 2)

    27 October 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Knowledge of Intention

    Kieran Setiya (2011)

    03 November 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • The Authority of Self-Knowledge

    Richard Moran (1999)

    10 November 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Agent's Awareness and Knowledge of our Mental Actions

    Lucy O'Brien (2007). Self-Knowing Agents (Chapter 6)

    17 November 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Neo-Expressivism: Avowals' Security and Privileged Self-Knowledge

    Dorit Bar-On (2011)

    24 November 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Self-Knowledge and Rational Agency: A Defense of Empiricism

    Brie Gertler (2016)

    07 December 2016

    15:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Belief and Self-Knowledge: Lessons from Moore's Paradox

    Declan Smithies (2016)

    15 December 2016

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Constitutive Theories

    Annalisa Coliva (2016). The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (Chapter 7, pp. 163-188)

    19 January 2017

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Constitutive Theories

    Annalisa Coliva (2016). The Varieties of Self-Knowledge (Chapter 7, pp. 188-215)

    26 January 2017

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Are we luminous?

    Amia Srinivasan (2015)

    02 February 2017

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • Self-Knowledge and Inference

    Quassim Cassam (2014). Self-Knowledge for Humans (Chapter 11)

    09 February 2017

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència

  • The transparency of Intention

    Sarah K. Paul (2014)

    16 February 2017

    13:00, Seminari de l'ex-Dept. de Lògica, Història i Filosofia de la Ciència