WBMD4051: Topics in Philosophy of Mind

“SELF-KNOWLEDGE: KNOWING ONESELF AS AN AGENT”

SCHEDULE OF READINGS


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Feb. 7

Opening session; no reading.

Feb. 9

Tugendhat, Lectures 1-2

Feb. 14

Tugendhat, Lectures 3-4

Optional: Dieter Henrich, “Noch einmal in Zirkeln: Eine Kritik von Ernst Tugendhats semantischer Erklärung von Selbstbewußtsein,” in Bellut and Müller-Schöll (eds.), Mensch und Moderne (1989)

Feb. 16

Tugendhat, Lecture 5

Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §§243-315

Feb. 21

Tugendhat, Lecture 6

Crispin Wright, "Self-knowledge: the Wittgensteinian Legacy"in C. Wright, B. Smith, C. Macdonald (eds.), Knowing Our Own Minds (Oxford), 15-45

Feb. 23

Tyler Burge, “Individualism and Self-Knowledge,” Journal of Philosophy 85 (1988): 649-63.

Paul Boghossian, “Content and Self-Knowledge,” Philosophical Topics (1989)

Optional: Davidson, “Knowing One’s Own Mind,” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association 60 (1987): 441-57.

Feb. 28

Moran, Authority and Estrangement, ch. 1 & 2

Mar. 2

Moran, Authority and Estrangement, ch. 3

Mar. 7

Moran, Authority and Estrangement, ch. 4

Mar. 9

Moran, Authority and Estrangement, ch. 5

Mar. 14

Symposium on Moran’s book in European Journal of Philosophy Sydney Shoemaker, “Moran on Self-Knowledge”

Lucy O’Brian, “Moran on Agency and Self-Knowledge”

Richard Moran, “Responses to Shoemaker and O’Brian”

Mar. 16

Akeel Bilgrami, "Self-Knowledge and Resentment” in C. Wright, B. Smith and C. Macdonald (eds.), Knowing Our Own Minds (Oxford)

Mar. 21

David Velleman, Practical Reflection, Intro, chs. 1-2 (pp. 3-77).

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~velleman/Practical_Reflection/contents2.html

Mar. 23

Tugendhat, Lectures 7&8 (plus “Translator’s Introduction”)

Optional: Daniel Haybron, “Do We Know How Happy We Are? On Some Limits of Affective Introspection and Recall,” ms. 2004.

Mar. 28

NO CLASS (EASTER MONDAY)

Mar. 30

Tugendhat, Lectures 9 & 10

Selections from Heidegger, Sein und Zeit.

April 4

Tugendhat, Lectures 11 & 12

April 6

Jürgen Habermas, “Individuation through Socialization: George Herbert Mead’s Theory of Subjectivity” in Postmetaphysical Thinking (German 1988)

April 11

You have this week to write your paper.

April 18

Paper due at noon


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