PLEASE NOTE this is a sample reading list for the 2014-15 academic year
– precise seminar content may change from year to year.
Week 1. The Philosophical Picture of Self-Knowledge
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Brie Gertler ‘Self-Knowledge’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Available here:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/self-knowledge/
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Richard Moran Authority and Estrangement (Princeton University Press 2001), chapter 1.
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press 2014) chapters 1 and 4.
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge (Oxford Bibliographies Online). Available here
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780195396577/obo9780195396577-0112.xml
Week 2. The Specialness of Self-Knowledge
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Brie Gertler ‘Introduction: Philosophical Issues about Self-Knowledge’, in Brie Gertler
(ed.) Privileged Access: Philosophical Acounts of Self-Knowledge(Ashgate 2003).
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William Alston ‘Varieties of Privileged Access’, American Philosophical Quarterly 1971.
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Gilbert Ryle The Concept of Mind (Penguin 2000), chapter VI.
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Donald Davidson Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective (Oxford University Press 2001),
chapter 1and the first three pages of chapter 2.
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Crispin Wright ‘Self-Knowledge: The Wittgensteinian Legacy’, in C. Wright, B. Smith and C.
MacDonald (eds.) Knowing Our Own Minds
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Paul Snowdon ‘How to Think about Phenomenal Self-Knowledge’, in Annalisa Coliva (ed.) The
Self and Self-Knowledge (Oxford University Press 2012).
Week 3. Inferentialism and the Asymmetry
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Paul Boghossian Content and Justification (Oxford University Press 2008), chapter 6. Available
here: https://pantherfile.uwm.edu/hinchman/www/Boghossian-Chapter6.pdf
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Richard Moran, Authority and Estrangement, chapter 1
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Gilbert Ryle The Concept of Mind (Penguin 2000), chapter VI.
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Darryl Bem ‘Self-Perception Theory’, in L. Berkowitz (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social
Psychology (Academic Press Inc.). Available here: http://www.dbem.us/SP%20Theory.pdf
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Krista Lawlor ‘Knowing What One Wants’, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 2009.
Available here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.19331592.2009.00266.x/abstract
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press 2014), chapters 11 and
12.
Week 4. Substantial Self-Knowledge
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press 2014), chapters 3 and
13.
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Eric Schwitzgebel ‘Self-Ignorance’, in J. Liu and J. Perry (eds.), Consciousness and the Self:
New Essays (Cambridge University Press, 2012). Available here:
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/SelfUcs-101118.pdf
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Aaron James Assholes: A Theory (Nicholas Brealey, 2012), chapter 1.
Week 5. Self-Ignorance
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Eric Schwitzgebel ‘Self-Ignorance’, in J. Liu and J. Perry (eds.), Consciousness and the Self:
New Essays (Cambridge University Press 2012). Available here:
http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzPapers/SelfUcs-101118.pdf
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Richard Nisbett & Timothy Wilson ‘Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental
Processes’, Pyschological Review 1977 . Available
here:http://people.virginia.edu/~tdw/nisbett&wilson.pdf
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Paul Katsafanas ‘Nietzsche on Agency and Self-Ignorance’, Journal of Nietzsche Studies, 2012.
Available here: http://people.bu.edu/pkatsa/NASI.pdf
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press, 2014), chapter 14.
Week 7. Knowing Why
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Matthew Boyle ‘ “Making Up Your Mind” and the Activity of Reason’, Philosophers’
Imprint 2011. Available here: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/making-up-yourmind-and-the-activity-of-reason.pdf?c=phimp;idno=3521354.0011.017
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Michael Shermer Why People Believe Weird Things (Souvenir Press 2007), chapters 17 and 18.
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Thomas Gilovich How We Know What Isn't So, part one.
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Daniel Kahneman Thinking, Fast and Slow, parts 1 and 2.
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Quassim Cassam ‘Intellectual Character and Self-Ignorance’ (draft, do not circulate without
permission).
Week 8. Character and Self-Knowledge
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Heather Battaly ‘Virtue Epistemology’, Philosophy Compass 2008 and reprinted in J. Greco & J.
Turri (eds.) Virtue Epistemology.
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Lee Ross & Richard Nisbett, The Person and the Situation, chapters 1 and 2.
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Gilbert Harman 'Moral Philosophy Meets Social Psychology: Virtue Ethics and the Fundamental
Attribution Error', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 1999.
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John Doris Lack of Character (Cambridge University Press, 2002), chapters 1 and 2.
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Mark Alfano ‘Expanding the Situationist Challenge to Responsibilist Virtue
Epistemology’, Philosophical Quarterly 2012.
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Quassim Cassam ‘Vice Epistemology’ (draft, do not circulate without permission).
Week 9. The Value of Self-Knowledge
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Simon Feldman & Allan Hazlett ‘Authenticity and Self-Knowledge’, Dialectica 2013. Available
here: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1746-8361.12022/abstract
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Timothy Wilson & Elizabeth Dunn, E. ‘Self-Knowledge: Its Limits, Value, and Potential for
Improvement’, Annual Review of Psychology 2004. Available here:
http://people.virginia.edu/~tdw/annual.review.final.pdf
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press 2014), chapter 15.
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Quassim Cassam 'Self-Knowledge: What Is It Good For?', forthcoming magazine article for
Conde Nast (do not circulate).
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Rebecca Schlegel et al. ‘Feeling Like You Know Who You Are: Perceived True Self-Knowledge
and Meaning in Life’, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 2011. Available here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21402753
Week 10. Love’s Knowledge
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Martha Nussbaum Love’s Knowledge (Oxford University Press 1990), chapter 11.
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Quassim Cassam Self-Knowledge for Humans (Oxford University Press 2014), chapter 13.