Introduction

getting to know our own minds

Julie Kirsch

Patrizia Pedrini

pp. 1-12

in: Patrizia Pedrini, Julie Kirsch (eds), Third-person self-knowledge, self-interpretation, and narrative, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

Our project is to answer questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self-knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure. Bringing together current research on third-person self-knowledge and self-interpretation, our authors focus on third-person self-knowledge, and the role that narrative and interpretation play in acquiring it. We regard the third-personal epistemic approach to oneself as a problem worthy of investigation in its own right, and our contributors try to clarify the relation between third-person self-knowledge, self-interpretation, and narrative capacities. We also invite cooperation between analytic philosophy and phenomenology about issues regarding self-knowledge.