Syllabus/achievement requirements

All articles are either available online from UiO network (links provided), or can be photocopied by borrowing mastercopies from IFIKK reception (marked by ‘*’).

For an excellent extended online bibliography on self-knowledge, with links to most articles, see: http://philpapers.org/browse/self-knowledge .

* Anscombe, G.E.M., 1957, Intention. Oxford: Blackwell. Sections 1-8.

* Armstrong, D. M., 1968, A Materialist Theory of the Mind. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Ch 15.

* Armstrong, D. M., 1984, "Introduction" and "In defence of Inner Sense" in Armstrong, D. and Malcolm, N., Consciousness and Causality, Oxford: Blackwell. Sections 1-2.

Bar-On, D., 2004, Speaking my Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge , Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Note: The link gives you access to the full text)

Boghossian, P., 1989, ‘Content and Self-Knowledge’

Burge, T., 1988, ‘Individualism and Self-Knowledge’ , The Journal of Philosophy 85: 649-663. Link:

* Cassam, Q., ed., 1994, Self-Knowledge, New York: Oxford University Press. Introduction.

Donnellan, K. & S. Morgenbesser, 1963, ‘Knowing What I am Doing’ , Journal of Philosophy 60: 401- 409. Link:

Dretske, Fred, 2003. ‘How Do you Know You are Not a Zombie?’ , in Gertler 2003b.

Falvey, K, 2000, ‘Knowledge in Intention’ , Philosophical Studies, 99: 21-44.

* Gallois, A., 1996, The Mind Within, The World Without, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Ch. 3.

Gertler, B 2003a, ‘Self-Knowledge’ , The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2008 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.).

Gertler, B., ed., 2003b, Privileged Access: Philosophical Accounts of Self-Knowledge, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing. (See Dretske and Siewert)

* Moran, R., 2001, Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Chapters 1, 3 (sec 1) and 4.

Moran, R. 2004, 'Anscombe on 'Practical Knowledge'' in J. Hyman and H. Steward (eds.), Agency and Action, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,: 43-68.

Owens, D., Typescript, 'Deliberation and the First Person'. Link: www.shef.ac.uk/content/1/c6/03/49/17/DELIBFINAL.pdf .

Rosenthal, D. M., 2000, 'Introspection and Self-Interpretation’

Shoemaker, S., 1990, ‘First-Person Access’ , Philosophical Perspectives 4, 187-214.

Shoemaker, S., 1994, 'Self-Knowledge and 'Inner Sense'. Lecture I: The Object Perceptual Model.' , Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 104, 249-269.

* Siewert, C., 2003, ‘Self-Knowledge and Rationality: Shoemaker on Self-Blindness’, in Gertler 2003b.

Tye, Michael, 2003, 'Qualia and Visual Content Revisited' in Chalmers, David (ed.), Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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