Duración: (2021-2022)

Código: 2021-40790

Investigador principal:

Santiago Arango Muñoz, santiago.arango5@udea.edu.co

Equipo de investigación:

Diego Alejandro Aguirre (Joven investigador)

Santiago Agudelo (Joven Investigador)

Salvador Chinchilla (Estudiante en formación pregrado)

Alejandro Hernández (Practicante de Lic. Filosofía)

Resumen: Many theories of self-knowledge have focused on the question concerning how one knows one’s own occurrent thoughts. However, most of our mental life is constituted by mental dispositions. If dispositions are unconscious, but not introspectable, how can the subject get to know such dispositions? This is the hard problem of self-knowledge. In this project, I will analyze this problem against the background of the transparency method for self-ascriptions and the metaphysics of mental dispositions; finally, I will defend the significance of the problem in terms of the moral improvement of the subject and her cognitive efficiency.

Objetivos:

 Main goal: The main goal of this project is to better understand the hard problem of self-knowledge, characterize it and determine if it’s possible to solve it or not. That is, if a subject can acquire knowledge of her own mental dispositions (in other words, metacognition of dispositions).

Specific goal 1: To revise the main theories of self-knowledge: the transparency theories, the ISA theory, and the theories that accept that there’s a non-trivial type of self-knowledge.

Specific goal 2: The hard problem of self-knowledge seems to derive form the more general problem of our knowledge of dispositions. Thus, the second goal is to study the epistemological problem of knowing dispositions in order to shed light on the hard problem self-knowledge.

Specific goal 3: The last goal of this research would be to determine the significance of self-knowledge, in particular, the non-trivial type, for our lives. Here I’m going to focus, mainly on cognitive efficiency and the moral stand upon ourselves.

Palabras clave: metacognition, dispositions, self-knowledge

Entidades cooperantes / financiadoras: 

Instituto de Filosofía, Universidad de Antioquia