Date:
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 5:30pm to 7:15pm
In the talk it is argued that we should be pluralists about self-knowledge. What that means is, first, that we should acknowledge that there are cases of genuinely first-personal, as well as of third-personal self-knowledge. Second, that the latter depend on the application of a variety of epistemic methods. Third, that the correct account of the former, in fact, should dispense with any substantial
epistemology and embrace constitutivism. Finally, the latter has different sources depending on the kind of mental state at issue.