Topics in epistemology: self-knowledge

Lectures: 1 session / week, 3 hours / session

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?

MIT students were required to obtain permission of the instructors.

Students were graded on the following:

In-class student presentations

Final paper due 6 days after Session 13

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