Course Meeting Times
Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session
Course Overview
This course is a graduate seminar surveying recent work on self-knowledge. Some questions that will be explored and discussed are: What is the distinctive philosophical interest of self-knowledge? Is self-knowledge really an epistemic achievement? Is it plausible that there is a uniform explanation of all distinctively first-personal self-knowledge?
Prerequisites
MIT students were required to obtain permission of the instructors.
Requirements
Students were graded on the following:
- Attendance
- Assigned readings
- An in-class presentation
- A 20–25 pp. final paper, with a substantial draft submitted by the last session
Calendar
| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | The Wittgensteinian Legacy | |
| 3 | Inner Sense I | |
| 4 | Inner Sense II, and Shoemaker's Rationalism | |
| 5 | Ryleanism | |
| 6 | Transparency I | Guest: Prof. Richard Moran, Harvard University |
| 7 | Transparency II | Guest: Prof. Matt Boyle, Harvard University |
| 8 | Sensation | Guest: Prof. Brie Gertler, University of Virginia |
| 9 | Perception | |
| 10 | Review Session | |
| 11 | Neo-expressivism | Guest: Prof. Dorit Bar-On, University of Connecticut |
| 12 | Desire and Emotion | |
| 13 | Intention |
In-class student presentations Final paper due 6 days after Session 13 |