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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