Jesse Butler

Hello! I am a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Central Arkansas, where I teach and do research in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, philosophy of language, critical thinking, and ethics. 

My current research focuses on the concept of ecological self-understanding, which I argue is a cross-cultural epistemic virtue that we humans ought to cultivate in our understanding of ourselves and our place in the world. You can read a recent article I wrote on the topic for Science, Religion & Culture here.

For the 2016-17 academic year, I was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, where I taught courses on self-knowledge and American philosophy. You can read about my experience here.

Thanks to an Enduring Questions Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, I developed a new interdisciplinary and cross-cultural course on self-knowledge. Check out the course website here: 

Who am I? The Perennial Quest for Self-Knowledge 

My pluralist theory of introspection has been published by Palgrave Macmillan in their New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science Series:

Rethinking Introspection: A Pluralist Approach to the First-Person Perspective