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Rocco J. Gennaro – Professor of Philosophy
Office:
Department of Philosophy
Indiana State University
Root Hall A-138F
Terre Haute, IN 47809
(812) 237-3103
email:
rgennaro@isugw.indstate.edu
Education:
Ph.D.
(Philosophy) Syracuse University 1991
B.A.
(Philosophy/Religion) Hunter College (CUNY) 1985
Primary
Areas of Specialization/Interest:
Philosophy
of Mind & Cognitive Science, Metaphysics, History of Early Modern Philosophy/Applied Ethics, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, History of Analytic
Philosophy.
Mind
and Cognitive Science, Area Editor, The Internet
Encyclopedia of Philosophy (www.iep.utm.edu)
Major Publications:
Books:
The Interplay between Consciousness and Concepts, editor, Imprint
Academic, 2007. This is a special
double Issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies (vol. 14,
Sept/Oct) which I guest edited. It is also sold separately as a book.
Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, editor,
John Benjamins Publishers, 2004.
A
Dialogue on Ethical Issues of Life and Death,
University Press of America, 2002.
New
Essays on the Rationalists, edited with Charles
Huenemann, Oxford University Press, 1999.
Consciousness and Self-Consciousness: A Defense of the Higher-Order Thought
Theory of Consciousness, John Benjamins
Publishers, 1996. (Advances in Consciousness Research series.)
Mind and Brain: A Dialogue on the Mind-Body Problem,
Hackett Publishing Company, 1996.
Articles, Book Chapters, Selected Book Reviews:
"Animals, Consciousness, and I-Thoughts," in
Philosophy of Animal Minds, Robert Lurz (ed.), Cambridge University
Press, forthcoming 2009.
"Representationalism, Peripheral Awareness, and the
Transparency of Experience," Philosophical Studies, forthcoming
2008. Available at:
http://eprints.assc.caltech.edu/218/01/repperiph.pdf
"Are There Pure Conscious Events?" in Rethinking
Mysticism, Gordon Haist and Chandana Chakrabarti (ed.), Cambridge Scholars Press,
forthcoming 2008.
"Consciousness
and Concepts: An Introductory Essay" in a special double issue of the the Journal of Consciousness Studies,
14 (9-10), pp. 1-19 (Sept/Oct 2007).
"Consciousness," Dictionary Entry, in The Language of Science,
Giandomenico Sica (ed.), Polimetrica: Italy, 2007. Available at:
http://www.polimetrica.org/site/
"Review of
Peter Carruthers' Consciousness: Essays from a Higher-Order Perspective,"
PSYCHE, 12, July 2006. Available at:
http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/book_reviews/carruthers3/Carruthers.pdf
"Aspects
of the Unity of Consciousness and Everyday Memory Failures,"
Consciousness and Cognition, 15, pp. 372-385 (June 2006) (with Douglas Herrmann and
Michael Sarapata).
"The
Ties That Bind: A Review of
Axel Cleeremans (ed.) The Unity of Consciousness: Binding, Integration,
and Dissociation," American Journal of Psychology, 119, pp.
511-516 (Fall 2006).
"Between
Pure Self-Referentialism and the (Extrinsic) HOT Theory of Consciousness,"
in Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, U. Kriegel and K. Williford
(eds.), MIT Press, 2006, pp. 221-248. [Figure
in PDF]
"Defining
Consciousness (A Commentary on de Quincey)" Journal of Consciousness
Studies, 13 (4), pp. 24-5 (April 2006).
"Consciousness,"
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
2005.
"The HOT
Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?", Journal of
Consciousness Studies, 12 (2), pp. 3-21(Feb. 2005).
“Higher-Order Thoughts, Animal Consciousness, and Misrepresentation: A Reply
to Carruthers and Levine,” in Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness,
Rocco J. Gennaro (ed.), John Benjamins Publishers, 2004, pp. 45-66.
"Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness: An Overview," introductory chapter
to Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness,
Rocco J. Gennaro (ed.), John Benjamins Publishers, 2004, pp. 1-13.
"Inferences About the Mental Processes of Other People" (with Doug Herrmann,
Eric Anderson, Tom Johnson, and Carol Yoder), Journal of Social
Psychology, 143, pp. 355-373 (June 2003).
“Papineau
on the Actualist HOT Theory of Consciousness,” Australasian Journal of
Philosophy, 81, pp. 581-586 (Dec. 2003).
"Jean-Paul
Sartre and the HOT Theory of Consciousness," Canadian Journal of
Philosophy, 32, pp. 293-330 (Sept. 2002).
“Review of
Richard Rorty’s Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers Vol. 3,” Journal
of Constructivist Psychology, 14, pp. 65-76 (Jan. 2001) (with Tom
Johnson).
“A Note on
Abortion and Capital Punishment,” International Philosophical Quarterly,
40, pp. 491-495 (Dec. 2000).
"Fiction,
Pleasurable Tragedy, and the HOT Theory of Consciousness," Philosophical
Papers, 29, pp. 107-119 (July 2000).
"Leibniz
on Consciousness and Self-Consciousness," in New Essays on the
Rationalists, Rocco J. Gennaro and Charles Huenemann (eds.), Oxford
University Press, 1999, pp. 353-371.
"The
Relevance of Intentions in Morality and Euthanasia," International
Philosophical Quarterly, 36, pp. 217-227 (June 1996).
"Does
Mentality Entail Consciousness?," Philosophia, 24, pp. 331-358 (Dec. 1995).
"Kant versus Lewis on the Singularity of Space and Time," History of
Philosophy Quarterly, 11, pp. 205-218 (April 1994).
"Brute
Experience and the Higher-Order Thought Theory of Consciousness,"
Philosophical Papers, 22, pp. 51-69 (April 1993).
"Consciousness, Self-Consciousness, and Episodic Memory,"
Philosophical Psychology, 5, pp. 333-347 (Dec. 1992).
Work in Progress:
"Visual Agnosia and Higher-Order Thought Theory"
"In Defense of Conceptualism"
"How 'global' is HOT theory?"
Book Manuscript: Consciousness, Concepts, and Higher-Order
Thoughts
Recent/Future Presentations:
"Does
Mentality Entail Consciousness?" to be presented at a Workshop on
Consciousness and Intentionality, University of Fribourg, Fribourg
Switzerland, July 3-5, 2008.
"How
'Global' is HOT Theory? to be presented at the "Toward a Science of
Consciousness" Conference in Tucson, AZ, April 11, 2008.
"Representational
Theories of Consciousness," presented at the University of
Cincinnati, Cincinnati OH,
November 9, 2007.
"Visual
Agnosia and Higher-Order Thought Theory" presented at the eleventh
annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,
Las Vegas NV, June 23, 2007. Powerpoint available at:http://eprints.assc.caltech.edu/310/01/VisualAgnosia-HOTTheory.pdf
Comments
on Bryce Huebner's "If you like Pina Coladas..." presented at
a Philosophy of Mind Colloquium, Pacific Division APA Meetings, San Francisco CA, April 6, 2007.
"Representational
Theories of Consciousness," Indiana University, Bloomington IN,
November 8, 2006.
"Four
Theses on Peripheral Awareness," presented at the "Toward a Science of
Consciousness" Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 4, 2006.
"Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness"
presented at the Society for
Indian Philosophy and Religion Group Meeting, Eastern Division APA Meetings,
New York City, December 28, 2005.
"Higher-Order Representational Theories of Consciousness," presented
at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS, November 10, 2005.
Participant/Discussion Panelist, Syracuse Philosophy Annual Workshop and Network (SPAWN)
Conference on Consciousness, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, July 28-30,
2005.
"Between
Pure Self-Referentialism and the (Extrinsic) HOT Theory of Consciousness,"
presented at a CUNY Graduate Center Philosophy Colloquium, New York City, April
6, 2005.
"Comments
on Uriah Kriegel's "An Ontological Assay of
Consciousness," presented at "Self-Representational Approaches to
Consciousness," University of Arizona, March 19, 2005.
Series of
Four Lectures on the "Mind-Body Problem," sponsored by the Dewey Institute
for Lifelong Learning, Indiana State University, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 2005.
"Higher-Order Thoughts and Misrepresentation," presented at the "Toward a
Science of Consciousness" Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 10, 2004.
“Higher-Order Thoughts, Animal Consciousness, and Misrepresentation: A Reply
to Carruthers and Levine,” presented at the Graduate Center – CUNY, New York
City, July 10, 2003.
“Carruthers on Animal Consciousness and the Dispositional HOT Theory,”
presented at the seventh annual meeting of the Association for the
Scientific Study of Consciousness, The University of Memphis, Memphis, TN,
June 2, 2003.
“The HOT
Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?” presented at the
Central APA Meetings in Cleveland, Ohio, April 26, 2003.
“The HOT
Theory of Consciousness: Between a Rock and a Hard Place?” presented at the
“Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 9,
2002.
“Jean-Paul
Sartre and the HOT Theory of Consciousness,” presented at the fifth annual
meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke
University, May 28, 2001.
“The Unity
of Mind, Everyday Memory Failures, and Slips of Action,” (poster)
presentation (with Douglas Herrmann) at the fifth annual meeting of the
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University, May
28-30, 2001.
“Fiction,
Pleasurable Tragedy, and the HOT Theory of Consciousness,” presented at the
“Toward a Science of Consciousness” Conference in Tucson, Arizona, April 14,
2000.
"The
Problem of Other Minds," presented at the Southern Society for Philosophy
and Psychology (as part of a Symposium entitled "Other Minds: Psychological
and Philosophical Perspectives"), Louisville, Kentucky, April 1, 1999.
Courses Taught at Indiana State University (since 1995):
Upper-Level:
Philosophy of Science
Minds, Machines, and Cognition
Philosophy of Psychology
Seminar: Ethics and Psychology
Theory of Knowledge
Aesthetic Theory
Modern Philosophy I
Modern Philosophy II
Independent Study: Immortality
Metaphysics
Analytic Philosophy
Lower-Level:
Ethics and the Good Life
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Logic
Introduction to Aesthetics |
