NEH Summer Institute Program
NEH Summer Institute: Self-Knowledge: Program
Program
Please note: access to the readings is restricted to participants only. For a program with links to the readings follow this link or click on READINGS in the navigation menu.
Each week, morning sessions will begin at 9:30, and afternoon sessions at 2:00. Morning sessions will run 9:30-10:45, with a 30 minute break, and then 11:15 to 12:30. Afternoon sessions will run 2:00-3:15, with a 30 minute break, and then 3:45-5:00, Monday through Wednesday, and with only one afternoon session scheduled for Thursday.
All sessions will be designated “read paper in advance,” at which the presenter will summarize the main ideas for 20 minutes or so, and then discussion will follow for the remainder of the time. A general discussion is scheduled for Friday, June 1, from 2:30-4:00.
PROGRAM
Sunday 5/20/18
5:30 Welcome Party at the Blacklock House (see Google Maps link).
Week One (May 21-May 25):
Monday (5/21/18):
9:00 Introduction and Overview
9:30 Coseru, “Précis of Self-Knowledge: Sense, Self-Awareness, and Subjectivity”
11:15 Carpenter, “Plato: The Value of Self-Knowledge”
2:00 Avramides, “The Self and Others”
3:45 Nichols, “The Episodic Sense of Self”
Tuesday (5/22/18):
9:30 Garfield, “Givenness and Primal Confusion”
11:15 Kellner, “Arguing About the Self in Eight Century South Asia: Śāntarakṣita and Kamalaśīla against the Nyāya Ātman”
2:00 Bilgrami, “Agency, Normativity, and Self-Knowledge”
3:45 Chakrabarti, “'How Could I Have Done this?'–After-Cognition, Self-Luminosity and the Spiritual Significance of Repentant Self-Awareness in Nyāya and Advaita.”
6:30 Party at Duke and Barbara Hagerty.
Wednesday (5/23/18):
9:30 Thompson, “Mindfulness and Conceptual Versus Nonconceptual Forms of Self-Awareness”
11:15 Reddy, “Engagement and Awareness of Self”
2:00 Siderits, “Self-Knowledge and Non-self I: Non-Self'”
3:45 Dreyfus, “Self-Awareness, Introspection, and Mindfulness”
Thursday (5/24/18):
9:30 Hough, “A Relation That Relates Itself to Itself’”: the Kierkegaardian Human as a Self-Disclosing Structure”
11:15 Siegel, “Inference and Self-Awareness”
2:00 Zahavi, “Plural Self-Knowledge I: Self and Person as Different Targets and Loci of Self-Knowledge"
3:45 Reddy, "Resistance, Play and Faking: The Self in Action"
Friday (5/25/18):
9:30 Avramides, “Self, Others, and Persons”
11:15 Zahavi, “Plural Self-Knowledge II: How to Understand the Self-Knowledge of a We”
Saturday 5/26/18
6:30 Party at Sheridan & Christian's place.
Sunday 5/27/18
6:30–8:30 Sunset Sail on the Schooner Pride.
Week Two (May 28-June 1)
Monday (5/28/18):
9:30 Coseru, “Consciousness, Emergentism, and Privileged Self-Knowledge”
11:15 Montague. “What Kind of Awareness is Awareness of Awareness?”
2:00 Gopnik, “The Child’s Developing Concept of Mind”
3:45 Carpenter, “Thou art the man: Owning and Owning Up’ OR ‘Knowing Your Actions as Your Own"
Tuesday (5/29/18):
9:30 Garfield, TBA
11:15 Dreyfus, “Self and Self-Knowledge”
2:00 Kellner, Reflexive Awareness, Subjectivity and Infallibility in Buddhist Epistemological Discourse
3:45 Bilgrami, “Intentionality, Normativity, and Self-Knowledge”
Wednesday (5/30/18):
9:30 Thompson, TBA
11:45 Gopnik, “Who Am I? Memory, Self, and the Babbling Stream”
2:00 Hough, “Nietzsche’s Awkward Sea Creatures, or: How Selves Became Self-Knowing”
3:45 Siderits, “Self-Knowledge and Non-self II: Self-Knowledge”
6:00 Party at Robert Lange Studios.
Thursday (5/31/18):
9:30 Montague, “Cognitive Phenomenology: What is Given in Conscious Thought?”
11:45 Chakrabarti, “Triple Awareness, Action in Perception and Vibrant Self-Sentience: Self-Awareness from Prābhākara Mīmāṃsā to Kashmir Shaivism, via Alva Noe”
2:00 Nichols, “Death and the Self”
Friday (6/01/18):
9:30 – 12:30 Participants Presentations
2:30-4:00 Round Table Discussion and Award Presentations
5:30 PM Farewell Party at the Blacklock House
