Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative

Patrizia Pedrini is Fixed-term Research Fellow at the Department of Letters and Philosophy, University of Florence, Italy. She is habilitated as Associate Professor in Theoretical Philosophy. Her main research interests range fromphilosophy of mind, philosophy of psychiatry, moral psychology, to epistemology. She is the author of two monographic books in Italian, one on self-knowledge (Prima persona. Epistemologia dell'autoconoscenza, Pisa, ETS, 2009) and one on self-deception (L'autoinganno. Che cos'è e come funziona, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013). She wrote articles in Italian and English on topics at the boundaries between philosophy, psychology, psychiatry, moral psychology, epistemology. Her recent publications include "Rescuing the 'Loss-of-Agency' Account of Thought Insertion" (Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 2015, with replies to commentaries). She is currently working on an authored book in English on self-deception. Julie E. Kirsch is an assistant professor of Philosophy at D'Youville College in Buffalo, New York. Her current research focuses upon self-knowledge and the ethics of belief and memory. She became interested in these problems after investigating the nature and ethics of self-deception in her earlier work. Her recent publications include Is Abortion a Question of Personal Morality? (2013), Narrative and Self- Deception in La Symphonie Pastorale (2012), When Is Ignorance Morally Objectionable? (2011), Maladies of Fantasy and Depth (2009), and What's So Great about Reality? (2005).

Introduction, by Patrizia Pedrini and Julie Kirsch.- Chapter 1. "Self-Knowing Interpreters vs. Self-Knowing Subjects," by Annalisa Coliva.- Chapter 2. "Self-Defence and Self-Knowledge: Truth and Interpretation in Psychoanalysis," by Michael Lacewing.- Chapter 3. "Self-Interpretation, Narrative, and Intersubjectivity," by Shaun Gallagher.- Chapter 4. "Knowing Our Minds: What and How?", by Daniel Hutto and Patrick McGivern.- Chapter 5. "Introspection, Introjection and Interpersonal Understanding: The Phenomenological Approach," by Dermot Moran.- Chapter 6. "Hermeneutics, Third-Person Self-Interpretation, and Narrative," by Bruce B. Janz.- Chapter 7. "How do Narratives Spin the Self? Implications for Self-Knowledge," by Serife Tekin.- Chapter 8. "Self-Interpretations as Software: Toward a New Understanding of Why False Self-Conceptions Persist," by Tad Zawidski.- Chapter 9. "Interpreting Intuitions,"; by Neil Van Leeuwen and Marcus McGahhey.- Chapter 10: "Interpreting Things Past," by Julie Kirsch.- Chapter 11: "Close Cover: Practical Knowledge and Retrospective Assessment," by Carla Bagnoli.- Chapter 12: "Self-Knowledge, Mental Time Travel, and Agency," by Luca Malatesti and Filip Cec.- Chapter 13: "Alienation, Identification, and Self-Knowledge," by Matthew Parrott.- Chapter 14: "Conceptualizing of One's Inner Experience," by Patrizia Pedrini.- Chapter 15: "Extended Knowledge and Self-Knowledge," Duncan Prichard and Adam Carter.