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).