Introspection and Consciousness

Declan Smithies is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Ohio State University and was until recently Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the Australian National University. He received his BA in Philosophy and Theology from the University of Oxford and his PhD in Philosophy from New York University. He works on a range of issues in epistemology and the philosophy of mind, including consciousness, intentionality, concepts, perception, introspection, attention, belief, justification, and knowledge. Daniel Stoljar is Professor of Philosophy at the Australian National University. He received his BA from the University of Sydney and his PhD from MIT. He works on a range of issues in philosophy of mind, metaethics, epistemology and metaphysics.

I. Skepticism about Introspection ; 1. Introspection, What?, Eric Schwitzgebel ; 2. Awareness and Authority: Skeptical Doubts About Self-Knowledge, Fred Dretske ; 3. Knowledge of Perception, Daniel Stoljar ; II. Theories of Introspection ; 4. Renewed Acquaintance, Brie Gertler ; 5. On the Phenomenology of Introspection, Charles Siewert ; 6. The Epistemology of Introspection, Ernest Sosa ; 7. Knowing What I See, Alex Byrne ; 8. Self-Knowledge, 'Transparency', and the Forms of Activity, Richard Moran ; III. Constitutivism ; 9. Self-Intimation and Second Order Belief, Sydney Shoemaker ; 10. A Simple Theory of Introspection, Declan Smithies ; 11. Judgment as a Guide to Belief, Nicholas Silins ; 12. Discrimination and Self-Knowledge, Patrick Greenough ; IV. Introspection and the Nature of Experience ; 13. Introspection, Explanation and Perceptual Experience: Resisting Metaphysical Disjunctivism, Aaron Zimmerman ; 14. Mind-Independence and Visual Phenomenology, Maja Spener ; 15. Introspection About Phenomenal Consciousness: Running the Gamut from Infallibility to Incompetence, Terry Horgan