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City University of New York Graduate Center
Barbara Montero
Barbara Montero
Ph.D. University of Chicago

Research Interests

  • Metaphysics, especially Physicalism
  • Philosophy of Mind
  • Aesthetics

Courses Recently Taught

Representative Publications

  • “Does Bodily Awareness Interfere with Highly Skilled Movement?” Inquiry
    (forthcoming).
  • What is the Physical?” in McLaughlin B. and A. Beckermann (eds.),
    Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press)
    (2009), pp. 173-188.
  • Philosophy of Mind, Wadsworth Press (2009), 141 pages.
  • “Affective Proprioception” co-written with Jonathan Cole,” Janus Head:
    Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental
    Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts
    , Special Issue
    Edited by Shaun Gallagher, 9.2 ( 2007), pp. 299-317.
  • "Physicalism Could Be True Even If Mary Learns Something New,”
    Philosophical Quarterly 57 (2007) pp. 176-189.
  • “What Does the Conservation of Energy Have to Do with Physicalism?”
    Dialectica 60:4 (2006), pp. 383–396.
  • “Proprioceiving Someone Else’s Movement,” Philosophical Explorations,
    9:2 June (2006) pp. 149-161.
  • “Proprioception as an Aesthetic Sense,” Aesthetics and Art Criticism,
    64: 2 (2006) pp. 231-242.
  • “Physicalism in an Infinitely Decomposable World” Erkentnis, 64: 2
    (2006) pp. 177-191.
  • “The Via Negativa Argument for Physicalism,” co-written with David
    Papineau, Analysis, Vol. 65, No. 3 (2005) pp. 233-237.
  • “Consciousness is Puzzling, but Not Paradoxical,” Philosophy and
    Phenomenological Research
    , 69: 1 (2004) pp. 213-226.
  • “The Epistemic/Ontic Divide,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research,
    66: 2 (2003) pp. 404-418.
  • “New Inconsistencies in Infinite Utility: Is Every World Good, Bad or
    Neutral?” co-written with D. Fishkind and J. Hamkins, Australasian
    Journal of Philosophy
    , 80: 2 (2002) pp. 178-190.
  • “Post-Physicalism,” Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8: 2 (2001) pp. 61-80.
  • “With Infinite Utility, More Needn’t be Better,” co-written with J.
    Hamkins, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 78: 2 (2000) pp. 231-240.
  • "The Body Problem," Noûs, Vol. 33, No. 3 (1999) p. 183-20

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