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City University of New York Graduate Center
David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal
Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science
  • Ph.D., Princeton University
  • A.B., University of Chicago
davidrosenthal [at-sign-here] nyu [put-a-dot-here] edu

Research Interests

  • Philosophy of mind, especially consciousness and intentionality and sensation
  • Philosophy of language
  • Metaphysics
  • Ancient philosophy
  • 17th-Century rationalism

Courses Recently Taught

Representative Publications

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  • Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, forthcoming December 2005.
  • "Varieties of Higher-Order Theory," in Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, ed. Rocco J. Gennaro, Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishers, 2004, pp. 17-44.
  • "Being Conscious of Ourselves," The Monist 87, 2 (April 2004): 159-181.
  • "Consciousness, Interpretation, and Higher-Order Thought," in Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch, ed., Psychoanalysis as an Empirical, Interdisciplinary Science: Collected Papers on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Research, Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2005, pp. 119-142.
  • "Subjective Character and Reflexive Content," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68, 1 (January 2004): 191-198.
  • "Explaining Consciousness," in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. David J. Chalmers, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 406-421.
  • "Consciousness and Metacognition," in Metarepresentation: Proceedings of the Tenth Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference, ed. Daniel Sperber, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
  • "A Theory of Consciousness," in The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, ed. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Gaven Gazeldere, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 729-753.
  • "Perceptual and Cognitive Models of Consciousness," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45, 3 (Summer 1997): 740-746.
  • The Nature of Mind, anthology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

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