For full functionality of this site it is necessary to enable JavaScript. Here are the instructions how to enable JavaScript in your web browser. David Rosenthal Position: Professor of Philosophy; Coordinator, Interdisciplinary Concentration in Cognitive Science; Professor of Linguistics; Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience Campus Affiliation: Graduate Center davidrosenthal1@gmail.com Website Curriculum Vitae Degrees/Diplomas: Ph.D., Princeton University; A.B., University of Chicago Cognitive Science Speaker Series Schedule Research Interests Philosophy of Mind, especially consciousness, intentionality, sensation, and the self Philosophy of Psychology Philosophy of Neuroscience Philosophy of Language Metaphysics Ancient Philosophy 17th-Century Rationalism Courses Recently Taught Consciousness: Neuroscience and Philosophy (with Professor Ro) (Fall 2019) Quine and Sellars on Thought and Language (Spring 2019) Perception and the Hard Problem (Fall 2018) Thought, Speech, and Content (Spring 2017) Intentionality and the Mental (Spring 2015) Mental Qualities (Fall 2015) Theories of Consciousness (Spring 2014) Descartes (Fall 2012) Representative Publications "There's Nothing about Mary", forthcoming in Classic Arguments: The Knowledge Argument, ed. Sam Coleman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. "Consciousness and Confidence", Neuropsychologia, in press. "Seeming to Seem", in The Philosophy of Daniel Dennett, ed. Bryce Huebner, New York: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 133-164. "Quality Spaces, Relocation, and Grain", in Sellars and His Legacy, ed. James R. O'Shea, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 149-185. "René Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy", Topoi 15, 2 (October 2015): 541-548. "Higher-Order Awareness, Misrepresentation, and Function", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 367, 1594 (May 19, 2012): 1424-1438. "Awareness and Identification of Self", Consciousness and the Self: New Essays, ed. JeeLoo Liu and John Perry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 22-50. "Empirical Support for Higher-Order Theories of Conscious Awareness", with Hakwan Lau, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 8 (August 2011): 365-373. "How to Think about Mental Qualities", Philosophical Issues: Philosophy of Mind, 20 (October 2010): 368-393. "Consciousness and Its Function", Neuropsychologia, 46, 3 (2008): 829-840.