Andrea Giananti, Research Consultant, University of Lausanne,Johannes Roessler, Professor of Philosophy, Fribourg University,Gianfranco Soldati, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick

Andrea Giananti holds an MA from the University of Milan, an MLitt from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD from the University of Fribourg. His work lies at the intersection of epistemology and philosophy of mind, and he is particularly interested in issues in the philosophy of perception, self-knowledge, rationality, and action.
He has worked as a Lecturer at the University of Fribourg, and as Deputy Professor of epistemology at the University of Bayreuth. Currently, he is a Research Consultant at the University of Lausanne.


Johannes Roessler holds an MA from Tübingen University and a DPhil from Oxford University. He was a Prize Fellow at Magdalen College and subsequently joined the Philosophy Department at Warwick University (initially as a research fellow in an interdisciplinary project on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness, directed by Naomi Eilan), where he is now a Professor. His main research interests are in epistemology and the philosophy of mind and action. He has published numerous articles on self-knowledge, perceptual knowledge, and reason-giving explanation, and he has co-authored a series of articles with Josef Perner on children's understanding of intentional actions. He is co-editor of three interdisciplinary volumes, published by OUP.


Gianfranco Soldati obtained his Licence ès Lettres at the University of Geneva and his PhD at the University of Tübingen. He has been doctoral assistant in Geneva and post-doctoral assistant in Tübingen. He holds the chair for modern and contemporary philosophy at Fribourg University since 2000. He works on phenomenology, mind and knowledge. Among other things he is interested in problems related to perception, action, reason, self-knowledge, and in the philosophical analysis of experience.

1. Introduction: Perceptual Knowledge and Self-Awareness, Johannes Roessler and Andrea Giananti2. The Possibility of Perceptual Knowledge, Barry Stroud3. The Scope of Perception, Barry Stroud4. Seeing and Thereby Knowing5. Recognitional Abilities and Knowing What One Sees, Alan Millar6. Appearances, Perceptual Knowledge, and Self-Knowledge7. Perceptual Beliefs and Beliefs About Perception8. Perception, Perceptual Knowledge, and Perceptual Self-Knowledge9. Perception, Knowledge, and Reflection, Johannes Roessler10. Perception as a Rational Capacity, Andrea Giananti11. Unsettling Questions, Guy Longworth12. Knowledge in Action and Knowledge of Perception, Eylem Ãzaltun13. Spontaneity Without Rationality: A Kantian Approach to Self-Consciousness and Perceptual Content, Hannah Ginsborg