Pierre-Jean Renaudie My most recent works investigate the epistemological and moral issues related to self-knowledge and attempt to develop a phenomenological approach to the question of self-knowledge. I have published a few articles and book chapters relating to this wider project that constitutes the core of my post-doctoral research (see below). I am currently preparing the translation and publication in French of a selection of important texts that have been published in contemporary English speaking literature on that topic. I intend to deepen these studies by analyzing the moral consequences of the irreducible gap between two different ways of knowing oneself, from a first or a third-person perspective. This part of my research will lead me to ask how self-concealment can take an active part in the process of self-knowledge. I aim at publishing a book on the constitution of the self in self-knowledge that will analyze the role of moral and epistemic virtues such as honesty and lucidity in autobiographical narratives.
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Related publications:
- “Me, Myself and I. Husserl and Sartre on Elusiveness of the Self” , Continental Philosophy Review, 2013, vol. 46 (1), p. 99-113
- “A pebble at the bottom of the water; Sartre and Cavell on self-knowledge” , in Sofia Miguens, Gerhard Preyer, Clara Bravo Morando, Pre-reflective Consciousness, Sartre and Contemporary Philosophy of Mind, 2015, Routledge (p. 208-224)
- “The ambiguity of the third person. Sartre’s theory of the novel and his philosophy of mind”, in C. Perrin (ed.), La phénoménologie et ses personnes, Hermann, Forthcoming in 2017