Title: Syllabus-Minta:
Author: Janos Hardi
Last saved by: GK
Company: ELTE

Course codes: BBN-FIL-324.10 BMA-FILD-324.10
Title of the course: Consciousness and Self
Instructor: Gergely Ambrus

Aim of the course
The course aims to provide an introduction to contemporary accounts of consious mental sates as well as of the Self.

Level of course: introductory/intermediate

1. Introduction: Mind, Consciousness, Self
Part I.: The Nature of Conscious States
Representational Theories of Consciousness
First-Order Representational Theories
2-3. Tye, M. Representationalist Theories of Consciousness. www.michaeltye.us/RepresentationalistTheoriesOfConsciousness.pdf 
Higher-Order Representational Theories
Rosenthal, D. M. 1993. Thinking that One Thinks. In Davies, M. – Humphreys. G.W. (ed.) Consciousness: Psychological and Philosophical Essays. Oxford, Blackwell. 197-223.
Lycan, W. 1997. Consciousness as Internal Monitoring. In Block, N. – Flanagan, O. J. – Güzeldere, G. (ed.) The Nature of Consciousness. Cambridge MA, MIT Press. 755-772. 
Self- Representational Theories
4-5. Thomasson, A.L. 2000. After Brentano: A One-Level Theory of Consciousness. European Journal of Philosophy 8/2. 190-209.
Zahavi, D.: Two Takes on a One-Level Account of Consciousness. Psyche 12(2) May 2006.

Part II.: The Nature of Selves
Background:  Barresi, J. – Martin, R. History as a Prologue. Western Theories of the Self. In OHS.*
The Self and the Body: Bodily Self, Embodied Self
6. Cassam, Q.: The Embodied Self. In OHS.
Williams, B. 1973. Are Persons Bodies? In Problems of the Self. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. 64-81.*
„No-Self” Theory vs Experiential Self
7-8. Hume, D.: Of Personal Identity. A Treatise of Human Nature. Book I Part IV, sec. VI.; Appendix. Several editions.
Metzinger, T.: The No-Self Alternative. In OHS.
Zahavi, D.: Unity of Consciousness and the Problem of the Self. In OHS.
Zahavi, D: The Experiential Self: Objections and Clarifications. In Siderits, M. –  Thompson, E. – Zahavi, D. (eds.): Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.*
II.2. Personal Identity through Time
Background:  Barresi, J. – Martin, R. History as a Prologue. Western Theories of the Self. In OHS.*
Relationist Theories of Personal Identity
9-10. Psychological and Bodily Criteria
Locke, J.: Of Identity and Diversity. An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Chap xxii. Many editions.
Parfit, D. Personal Identity. Philosophical Review 1971(80). 3-27. 
Williams, B.: The Self and the Future. In Problems of the Self. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1973. 46–63.
Personal Identity through Time and Moral Issues: What Matters Concerning Persons? 
11-12. Parfit, D.: The Unimportance of Identity. In OHS. 
Shoemaker, S.: Moral Responsibility and the Self. In OHS.
II.3. Narrative Accounts of the Self
13-14. Background: Schechtman, M.: The Narrative Self. In OHS.*
MacIntyre, A. Virtues, the Unity of Human Life, and the Concept of a Tradition. After Virtue. A Study in Moral Theory, chap. 15. University of Notre Dame Press, 1981.
Dennett, D.: The Self as the Center of Narrative Gravity. http://isites.harvard.edu/fs/docs/icb.topic565657.files/9/Dennett%20self%20as%20center%20of %20gravity.pdf 
Abbreviation
OHS = Gallagher, S. (szerk.): The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.

Course requirements, evalution
(1) Active participation in the course 2) presentation 3) course paper.

Readings
Compulsory reading: listed above, except the texts marked by *.
Suggested further readings: the texts marked by * 
and
Lycan, W. Representationalist Theories of Consciousness. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Kriegel, U. – Williford, K. W. (eds.) Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness. MIT Press, 2006.
Gallagher, S. (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Gennaro R. (ed.): Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness. Philadelphia, John Benjamins, 2004.
Gallagher, S. (ed.): The Oxford Handbook of the Self. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.
Siderits, M. –  Thompson, E. – Zahavi, D. (eds.): Self, No Self? Perspectives from Analytical, Phenomenological, and Indian Traditions. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011.