This week we will finish up our discussion of agent-causation from last week, focusing on Velleman’s functional and reductive account of agent-causation and Franklin’s “It Ain’t Me” argument. We’ll then turn to two recent arguments on the relation between rationality and various forms of self-consciousness or self-knowledge.
- Handout for week 9
Readings
- Burge, “Reason and the First Person”
- Boyle, “Active Belief”
- (Optional) Burge, “Our Entitlement to Self-Knowledge”
- (Optional) Boyle, “‘Making up Your Mind’ and the Activity of Reason”