The Varieties of Self-Knowledge

299 Pages·2016·4.447 MB·English

by  Annalisa Coliva (auth.)

the varieties of
self-knowledge
annalisa coliva
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
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Department of Philosophy
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh ,   UK
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Annalisa   C oliva
The Varieties of
Self- Knowledge
Annalisa Coliva
Department of Philosophy
Irvine , California , USA
Palgrave Innovations in Philosophy
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Cred its
Chapter 2 §§1-2 and Chapter 6 , §4 draw on “ Critical notice of Tyler
Burge’s Origins of Objectivity ”, D isputatio 4/33, 2012, pp. 515–530 and
on “One variety of self-knowledge: constitutivism as constructivism”, in
A. Coliva (ed.) Th e Self and Self-Knowledge , Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 2012, pp. 212–242.
Chapter 5 §§1, 3.1 contain parts of “Peacocke’s self-knowledge”, Ratio
21, 2008, pp. 13–27 and of “Review of Jordi Fernández’ Transparent
Minds ”, Th eoria 81, 2014, pp. 442–445.
Th e Appendix contains “How to commit Moore’s paradox”, Th e
Journal of Philosophy CXII/4, pp. 169-192, 2016.
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Acknowledgments
Th is book has developed over several years, since I fi rst became interested
in the topic of self-knowledge during my stay at Columbia University
thanks to a Fulbright Research Fellowship and a Fellowship of the Italian
Academy at Columbia University in 2002–2004. I would like to thank
my host there, Akeel Bilgrami, for his encouragement as well as for regu-
lar conversations, at his place, on this and related topics. Th anks are due
also to Andreas Kemmerling, my host in Heidelberg, where I was visit-
ing in 2006–2007 under the auspices of an Alexander von Humboldt
Fellowship and where I further developed my ideas on the topic of self-
knowledge. I would also like to thank the participants at two workshops
on “Th e Self and Self-Knowledge” that I organised in Bigorio and at the
Institute of Philosophy in London, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, which
proved invaluable in shaping my ideas on this topic: Dorit Bar-On, Akeel
Bilgrami, John Campbell, Jane Heal, Conor McHugh, Lucy O’Brien,
Ted Parent, Christopher Peacocke, Eva Picardi, Jim Pryor, Ursula Renz,
Carol Rovane, Martine Nida-Rümelin, Barry Smith, Gianfranco Soldati,
Paul Snowdon and Crispin Wright. Th e workshops were made pos-
sible by the generous contributions of the Fonds National Suisse, the
Institute of Philosophy and the British Academy, which I hereby thank
for their support. Th anks are also due especially to Akeel Bilgrami, Alan
Millar and Margaret Gilbert for their comments on my work on Moore’s
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