Self-Knowledge is an NIP pilot project led by Crispin Wright. The project concerns ordinary psychological self-knowledge: the knowledge we each seemingly have of our own sensations, beliefs, desires, intentions, hopes, fears, moods, emotions, and so on. There is a deep-rooted preconception that this knowledge is quite different to what we have of others, or they of us. The cardinal problem of self-knowledge is to properly describe and explain this asymmetry. The primary objective of the project will be the general advancement of the current understanding of these issues, but an important secondary objective will be to better understand the deflationary metaphilosophy - in particular, the insistence that philosophy cannot provide explanations - of the later Wittgenstein.

Areas of investigation: The Nature and Scope of Privileged Access; Introspection; Neo-Expressivism; Response-Dependence; Externalism and Content Individuation; Immunity to Error through Misidentification; Pluralism about Self-Knowledge; Quietism; Later Wittgenstein

For more information on the project please contact the project convener.