David Rosenthal, Selected Publications

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(list rev. 6/28/09)

  • Forthcoming and unpublished:

    (See also Published, mainly about Consciousness | Other Related Work | Miscellaneous)

      1. "Phenomenology, Methodology, and Theory", PowerPoint slides for a conference at the University of Bern on analytic phenomenology and theories of consciousness, May 27, 2009.
      2. "Consciousness and Mental Qualities", PowerPoint slides presented at the Efron Symposium, with Ned Block, in Philosophy of Mind, Pomona College, February 9, 2009, and "Phenomenal Consciousness and Conscious Access", slides for Efron Symposium, February 10, 2009.
      3. "Don't Mind the Gap", PowerPoint slides presented at the CUNY Graduate Center Cognitive Science Symposium, December 12, 2008, and originally in a slightly earlier version at a conference in honor of Fabrizio Mondadori, McGill University, November 7, 2008, under the title "Crossing the Explanatory Gap."
      4. "Self-Consciousness and Self-Identification", to appear in Consciousness and the Self, ed. JeeLoo Liu, forthcoming.
      5. "A Theory of Qualitative Consciousness", PowerPoint slides presented at the University of Potsdam, June 2009. An earlier version was presented under a different title at the University of Kyoto and Nihon University, Tokyo, May 2008 and in Taiwan at National Chengchi University and at National Chung Cheng University, June 2008.
      6. "Why Are Mental States Ever Conscious?", PowerPoint for Presidential Address, Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), Taipei, June 19, 2008; abstract.
      7. "The Poverty of Consciousness", PowerPoint slides derived from "Consciousness and Its Function", presented at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain, June 9, 2009, in Mérida at the Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciensias Sociales, UNAM, March 31, 2009, the University of Michigan Spring Colloquium, March 21, 2009, and as the 25th Dean Kolitch Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center, December 12, 2007.
      8. "The Mind and Its Expression", in Self, Language, and Thought, a volume in honor of Jay F. Rosenberg, ed. Eric M. Rubenstein and James R. O'Shea, forthcoming; derived in part from "Expressing One's Mind", presented at a 2007 author-meets-critics APA session on Dorit Bar-On's Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge.
      9. "Consciousness", in A Companion to Metaphysics, 2nd edition, ed. Gary Rosenkrantz, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, forthcoming.
      10. "Consciousness and Higher-Order Thought", with Josh Weisberg, in Scholarpedia, forthcoming.
      11. "Intrinsicalism and Its Discontents", PowerPoint presentation, CUNY Graduate Center Cognitive Science Symposium, November 2007; significantly expanded and somewhat revised from "Consciousness and Intrinsic Higher-Order Content," presented at Tucson VII, below.
      12. "Consciousness and Intrinsic Higher-Order Content", PowerPoint presentation at Tucson VII, Toward a Science of Consciousness 2006, session on Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness.
      13. "Expressing One's Mind", to appear in slightly revised form in Acta Analytica, 2009; derived from commentary at an Eastern Division APA Author-Meets-Critics Session on Dorit Bar-On, Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge, Baltimore, December 2007.
      14. "Replies to Galen Strawson and Ned Block" (not intended for publication), replies to Strawson and Block at CUNY Graduate Center Colloquium, December 2006.
      15. "The Function and Facilitation of Consciousness", book MS, in progress (title tentative).
      16. Tutorial on Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, for the 10th (June 2006) annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and a bibliography for that Tutorial.
      17. "Freedom and Consciousness", MS.
      18. "What Mary Wouldn't Learn", MS.
      19. "The Kinds of Consciousness", MS.


  • Published, mainly about consciousness:

      1. "Consciousness and Its Function" (uncorrected proofs), Neuropsychologia, 46, 3 (2008): 829-840.
        Earlier versions were presented at a conference on Consciousness, Memory, and Perception, in honor of Larry Weiskrantz, City University, London, and at the 11th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC).
      2. "Phenomenological Overflow and Cognitive Access", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 30, 5-6 (December 2007): 522-523.
      3. "Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness", in Oxford Handbook in the Philosophy of Mind, ed. Brian McLaughlin and Ansgar Beckermann, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009, pp. 239-252.
      4. "Philosophical Theories of Consciousness", in Oxford Companion to Consciousness, ed. Timothy Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, and Patrick Wilken, 2009.
      5. "Philosophy and Its Teaching", in A Teacher's Life: Essays for Steven Cahn, ed. Robert Talisse and Maureen Eckert, Lexington Books, forthcoming 2009, pp. 67-83.
      6. "Autobiographical and Disciplinary Relections", in Mind and Consciousness: Five Questions, ed. Patrick Grim, New York and London: Automatic Press, 2009, pp. 153-167.
      7. "Concepts and Definitions of Consciousness", in Encyclopedia of Consciousness, ed. William P. Banks, Amsterdam: Elsevier, forthcoming 2009.
      8. "Freud and the Unconscious", in The Humanities at Work, ed. Yubraj Aryal, Kathmandu, Nepal: Sunlight Publication, 2008, pp. 221-230.
      9. "Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness", with Josh Weisberg, in Scholarpedia, 3(5):4407; also available at Higher-order theories of consciousness.
      10. "Experience and the Physical", Journal of Consciousness Studies, 13, 10-11 (October-November 2006): 117-128, a discussion of Galen Strawson, "Realistic Monism: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism," in that issue; reprinted in Consciousness and its Place in Nature: Why Physicalism Entails Panpsychism, Galen Strawson et alii, ed. Anthony Freeman, Thorverton, UK: Imprint Academic, 2006, pp. 117-128.

      11. Consciousness and Mind, a collection of papers of mine on consciousness, some previously unpublished, with an introduction, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005;
        table of contents.

      12. "Consciousness", in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, Macmillan, 2005, vol. 2, pp. 449-458.
      13. "Consciousness", in The Language of Science (ISSN 1971-1352), ed. Giandomenico Sica, Monza: Polimetrica, 2007.
      14. "Sensory Qualities, Consciousness, and Perception", in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 175-226.
        Substantially earlier versions were presented at the 4th annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), Brussels, the 21st annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Washington University, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Haifa, and as the 20th Dean Kolitch Lecture at the CUNY Graduate Center.
      15. "Why Are Verbally Expressed Thoughts Conscious?", in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 282-305.
        An earlier, significantly shorter version appeared in preprint as Report No. 32/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
      16. "Consciousness, Interpretation, and Higher-Order Thought", Psychoanalysis as an Empirical, Interdisciplinary Science: Collected Papers on Contemporary Psychoanalytic Research, Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Sciences Press), 2005, pp. 119-142.
      17. "Varieties of Higher-Order Theory", in Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness, ed. Rocco J. Gennaro, John Benjamins Publishers, 2004, pp. 19-44.
      18. "Being Conscious of Ourselves", Monist 87, 2 (April 2004): 161-184, special issue on self-consciousness ed. José Luis Bermúdez.
      19. "Unity of Consciousness and the Self", in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 339-363.
        Significantly revised from an earlier version in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 103, 3 (April 2003): 325-352.
      20. Review of Mark Rowlands, The Nature of Consciousness, Mind, 113, 451 (July 2004): 581-588.
      21. "Consciousness and Higher-Order Thought", Macmillan Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Macmillan Publishers Ltd, 2002, pp. 717-726.
      22. "Subjective Character and Reflexive Consciousness", in a book symposium on John Perry's Knowledge, Possibility, and Consciousness, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 68, 1 (January 2004): 191-198.
      23. "Moore's Paradox and Crimmins's Case", Analysis, 62, 2 (April 2002): 167-171.
      24. "The Timing of Conscious States", Consciousness and Cognition, 11, 2 (June 2002): 215-220.
      25. "Explaining Consciousness", in Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. David J. Chalmers, New York: Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 406-421 (sometimes presented also on under the title "State Consciousness and What It's Like").
        Reprinted in Revue Roumaine de Philosophie, 46, 1-2 (2002): 109-131.
        In German translation by Antonia Barke, as "Bewußtsein Erklären," in Grundkurs Philosophie des Geistes. Band I: Phänomenales Bewußtsein, ed. Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn: Mentis, 2006, pp. 383-416.
        In Romanian translation by Bogdan M. Popescu, as "Explicarea Conştiinţei", in two parts, Revista de Filosofie L, 3-4 (May-August 2003): 287-303, and LI, 3-4 (May-August 2004): 455-464;
      26. "Consciousness and the Mind", Iyyun, The Jerusalem Philosophical Quarterly 51, 3 (July 2002): 227-251.
      27. "How Many Kinds of Consciousness?", Consciousness and Cognition, 11, 4 (December 2002): 653-665
        (special issue ed. Güven Güzeldere and Ron Mangun, stemming from the 5th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness [ASSC], at Duke University, May 2001).
        This article is partly a discussion of Ned Block's "Paradox and Cross Purposes in Recent Work on Consciousness", Cognition, 79, 1-2 (April 2001): 197-219.
      28. "Persons, Minds, and Consciousness", in The Philosophy of Marjorie Grene, in The Library of Living Philosophers, ed. Randall E. Auxier and Lewis E. Hahn, Chicago and LaSalle, Illinois: Open Court, 2002, pp. 199-220.
      29. "The Higher-Order Model of Consciousness", in Consciousness, by Rita Carter, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2002, pp. 45-47; also available as Exploring Consciousness, Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002.
      30. "Introspection and Self-Interpretation", Philosophical Topics, special issue on introspection, 28, 2 (Fall 2000): 201-233.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 103-131.
      31. "Content, Interpretation, and Consciousness", in Dennett's Philosophy: A Comprehensive Assessment (Proceedings of a Conference on Daniel Dennett, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's), ed. Don Ross, Andrew Brook, and David L. Thompson, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000, 287-308.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 321-335.
        Also reprinted in Protosociology: An International Journal of Interdisciplinary Research, Folk Psychology, Mental Concepts and the Ascription of Attitudes On Contemporary Philosophy of Mind and Radical Interpretation, 14 (2000): 67-84.
      32. "Consciousness and Sensation: Philosophical Aspects", International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, ed. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes, 26 vols, Oxford: Pergamon/Elsevier, 2001, pp. 2589-2596.
      33. "Color, Mental Location, and the Visual Field", Consciousness and Cognition, IX, 4 (April 2001): 85-93.
      34. "Sensory Quality and the Relocation Story", Philosophical Topics 26, 1 and 2 (special issue in honor of Sydney Shoemaker) (Fall and Spring 1999): 321-350.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 149-174.
      35. "Consciousness, Content, and Metacognitive Judgments", Consciousness and Cognition, IX, 2, Part 1 (June 2000): 203-214.
        This paper had been presented at the 3rd Annual Conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), June 1999.
      36. "Metacognition and Higher-Order Thoughts" (extended response to commentaries), Consciousness and Cognition, IX, 2, Part 1 (June 2000): 231-242.
      37. "Consciousness and Metacognition", in Metarepresentation: Proceedings of the Tenth Vancouver Cognitive Science Conference, ed. Daniel Sperber, New York: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 265-295.
      38. "The Colors and Shapes of Visual Experiences", in Consciousness and Intentionality: Models and Modalities of Attribution, ed. Denis Fisette, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999, pp. 95-118.
        An earlier version appeared in preprint as Report No. 28/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
      39. "Consciousness and Its Expression", Midwest Studies in Philosophy XXII (1999): 294-309.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 306-320.
      40. "Introspection", MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS), ed. Robert A. Wilson and Frank C. Keil, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 416-418. (For other articles, click here.)
      41. "A Theory of Consciousness", in The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, ed. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Güven Güzeldere, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997, pp. 729-753.
        An earlier version appeared in preprint as Report No. 40/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
        In Slovak translation, as "Teória Vedomia", in Antológia z Filozofie Mysle (The Anthology of the Philosophy of Mind), ed. Silvia Gáliková and Egon Gál, Bratislava: Kalligram, 2003, pp. 263-302.
      42. "Perceptual and Cognitive Models of Consciousness", Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 45, 3 (Summer 1997): 740-746.
      43. "Apperception, Sensation, and Dissociability", Mind and Language 12, 2 (June 1997): 206-223.
      44. "Phenomenal Consciousness and What It's Like" (commentary on Block), The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 20, 1 (March 1997): 64-65.
      45. "Multiple Drafts and Facts of the Matter", in Conscious Experience, ed. Thomas Metzinger, Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic, 1995, pp. 275-290.
        In German translation as "Mehrfache Entwürfe und unumstöliche Tatsachen", in Bewußtsein: Beiträge aus der Gegenwartsphilosophie, ed. Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1995, pp. 423-438.
      46. "First-Person Operationalism and Mental Taxonomy", Philosophical Topics 22, 1 and 2 (Spring and Fall 1995): 319-349.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 229-256.
      47. "Moore's Paradox and Consciousness", Philosophical Perspectives 9 (1995): 313-333.
        Reprinted, slightly revised and expanded, in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 257-281.
      48. "State Consciousness and Transitive Consciousness", Consciousness and Cognition, 2, 4 (December 1993): 355-363.
        In Romanian translation by Eduard Barbu, as "Conştiinţă de Stare şi Conştiinţă Tranzitivă", in Filosofia Conştiinţei şi Ştiinţele Cognitive (Philosophy of Consciousness and Cognitive Science), ed. Angela Botez and Bogdan M. Popescu, Bucharest: Cartea Romȃnească, 2002, pp. 175-185.
      49. "Consciousness and Higher-Order Thought", Times of London Higher Education Supplement, April 5, 1996, p. iii.
      50. "Multiple Drafts and Higher-Order Thoughts", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LIII, 4 (December 1993): 911-918.
      51. "Thinking that One Thinks", in Consciousness: Psychological and Philosophical Essays, ed. Martin Davies and Glyn W. Humphreys, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1993, pp. 197-223.
        An earlier version appeared in preprint as Report No. 11/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 46-70.
        Also reprinted in Sprache und Denken, ed. Alex Burri, Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 1997, pp. 259-287.
      52. "Higher-Order Thoughts and the Appendage Theory of Consciousness", Philosophical Psychology VI, 2 (June 1993): 155-167.
      53. "Consciousness, Plans, and Language," Psycoloquy (3)2 (June 3 1992), ISSN 1055-0143.
      54. "Consciousness", in A Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Jaegwon Kim and Ernest Sosa, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995, pp. 92-94.
      55. Review of The Disappearance of Introspection, by William Lyons, The Philosophical Review, 101, 2 (April 1992): 425-28.
      56. "Time and Consciousness" (commentary on Dennett and Kinsbourne), The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 15, 2 (June 1992): 220-221.
      57. "The Independence of Consciousness and Sensory Quality", in Consciousness: Philosophical Issues, 1, 1991, ed. Enrique Villanueva, Atascadero, California: Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1991, pp. 15-36.
        An earlier version appeared in preprint as Report No. 51/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
        Reprinted in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 135-148.
      58. "On Being Accessible to Consciousness" (commentary on Searle) The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13, 4 (December 1990): 621-622.
      59. "Two Concepts of Consciousness", Philosophical Studies 49, 3 (May 1986): 329-359.
        Reprinted in slightly revised form in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 21-45.
        Also reprinted in The Nature of Mind, ed. David M. Rosenthal, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 462-477, and in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Conceptual Issues, ed. Andy Clark and Josefa Toribio, Hamden, CT: Garland Publishing Company, 1997.
        In French translation by Donald Ipperciel, as "Deux Concepts de Conscience", in Philosophie de L'esprit (Tome II): Problèmes et Perspectives, ed. Denis Fisette and Pierre Poirier, Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2003, pp. 151-194.
        Original version.
      60. "Intentionality", Midwest Studies in Philosophy X (1986): 151-184.
        Reprinted (with 1989 postscript) in Consciousness and Mind, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2005, pp. 71-102.
        and in Rerepresentations: Readings in the Philosophy of Mental Representation, ed. Stuart Silvers, Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989, pp. 311-339; postscript: 341-344.
      61. "Armstrong's Causal Theory of Mind", in Profiles: David Armstrong, ed. Radu J. Bogdan, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1984, pp. 79-120.


  • Selected other work:

      1. "Emotions and the Self", in Emotion: Philosophical Studies, ed. Gerald E. Myers and K. D. Irani, New York: Haven Publications, 1983, pp. 164-191.
      2. "Will and the Theory of Judgment", in Essays on Descartes' Meditations, ed. Amélie O. Rorty, Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986, pp. 405-434;
        Reprinted in Descartes's Meditations, ed. Vere Chappell, Lanham, Maryland and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997, pp. 129-158,
        and in Essays on Early Modern Philosophers, Volume I: René Descartes, Part II, ed. Vere Chappell, Hamden, Conn.: Garland Publishing Company, 1992, pp. 257-286.
      3. "Judgment, Mind, and Will in Descartes" (a substantially extended version of "Will and the Theory of Judgment"), Report No. 29/1990, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld.
      4. "Philosophy and its History", in The Institution of Philosophy, ed. Avner Cohen and Marcelo Dascal, Peru, Illinois: Open Court, 1989, pp. 141-176.
      5. "Aristotle on Thought", comments on Deborah Modrak, Conference on Aristotle's Philosophy of Mind and Modern Theories of Cognition, University of Rochester, April 1985.
      6. "Aristotle's Hylomorphism", comments on Bernard Williams, Princeton Classical Philosophy Colloquium, December 1978.
      7. "Reductionism and Knowledge", in How Many Questions?, ed. Leigh S. Cauman, Isaac Levi, Charles Parsons, and Robert Schwartz, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Co., 1983, pp. 276-300.
      8. "Keeping Matter in Mind", Midwest Studies in Philosophy, V (1980): 295-322.
      9. "Mentality and Neutrality", The Journal of Philosophy, LXXIII, 13 (July 15, 1976): 386-415.
      10. "Talking about Thinking", Philosophical Studies, 24, 5 (September 1973): 283-313.
      11. "The Modularity and Maturation of Cognitive Capacities" (commentary on Chomsky), The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 3, 1 (March 1980): 32-34.
      12. Review of Frank Jackson, Perception: A Representative Theory, The Journal of Philosophy, LXXXII, 1 (January 1985): 28-41.
      13. Review of Zeno Vendler, Res Cogitans, The Journal of Philosophy, LXXIII, 9 (May 6, 1976): 240-252.
      14. "Dualism", in Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig, London and New York: Routledge, 1998, vol. 3, pp. 133-138.
      15. "The Identity Theory", in A Companion to the Philosophy of Mind, ed. Samuel Guttenplan, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1994, pp. 348-355.
      16. "Philosophy of Mind", Social Research, 47 (Winter 1980): 789-802.
      17. "Possibility, Existence, and an Ontological Argument", Philosophical Studies, 30, 3 (September 1976): 185-191.

      18. The Nature of Mind, anthology, New York: Oxford University Press, 1991
        (includes "Two Concepts of Consciousness," pp. 462-477):
        Table of Contents.

      19. Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem, anthology, 2nd edition, Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 2000 (1st edition 1971/1987):
        Addendum to Introduction
        Selective Bibliography, 1970-2000 (prepared with Gregg Caruso).


  • Miscellaneous things:

      1. "Rosenthal-Sellars Correspondence on Intentionality" (with Wilfrid Sellars), in Intentionality, Mind, and Language, ed. Ausonio Marras, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1972, pp. 461-503 (in pdf).
      2. An Online Interview with Ephilosopher; full text here (2001).
      3. A radio conversation about Dualism on Philosophy Talk (2008).
      4. "Consciousness and Its Function," with comments and replies from February-March 2009, a video presentation on Consciousness Online, originally recorded at the 13th Attention and Perception Conference, Chung-Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan June 26, 2008.
        A podcast of the talk is available here.
      5. Intentionality: A Study of the Views of Chisholm and Sellars (Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1968).
      6. Recent CV



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