Renero
Adriana
Philosopher
Photo by Pau Treviño, 2018
About me
I am currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness, Philosophy Department, as well as an Affiliated Research Scholar in the Philosophy of Mind at the Saul Kripke Center in the City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center. I am a former Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness. I earned my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY, Graduate Center, Philosophy Program.
My research interests include the philosophy of mind (epistemology and metaphysics of the mind), philosophy of psychology, and philosophy of sounds and music. I work on introspection, consciousness, auditory experience, the mind-body problem and the knowledge argument. I am also interested in the history of philosophy and aesthetics.
(Last update: Oct 27, 2023).
Research Projects
Saul Kripke's Philosophy of Mind
My research contributes to understand Kripke's position against materialism as presented in lecture III of Naming and Necessity and expanded in his Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind delivered at Princeton University in 1979. In those lectures, which I transcribed based on audio recordings, Kripke offers a knowledge argument against materialism, focusing on deaf people who lack knowledge of auditory experience. Kripke's argument is a precursor of Frank Jackson’s better-known knowledge argument against materialism (1982). I set out Kripke’s argument, highlight its philosophical importance, and explore some similarities and differences between Kripke’s knowledge argument and Jackson’s.
Introspection
My research contributes to two central issues: first, it argues against skeptical doubts about the reliability of introspection; and second, it proposes a model of the nature of introspection that explains the way in which we are aware of our mental states and we arrive at self-attributions. I offer a new pluralist model according to which introspection operates in tandem with other cognitive processes by combining various sources of information (in contrast with both reductive and standard pluralist accounts). I show that it is by introspection that we become aware of the character and contents of our mental states as well as the changes, transitions, and boundaries among them.
Auditory Consciousness
My research in this area aims to respond to the question: How are we conscious of our auditory sensations? I investigate the philosophical relevance of being conscious of our auditory sensations, and explore the significance of understanding our auditory states in both our private and public life. I aim to show that understanding our auditory world has important implications for improving our social interactions. In contrast to the vast philosophical research regarding visual states, auditory experience has been constantly neglected in the contemporary literature. This research project attempts to vindicate such a mistake by advancing proposals specific to this neglected but important domain.
Publications (Download in PhilPapers)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:
Renero, A. (2023). Kripke’s knowledge argument against materialism. Philosophical Perspectives, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpe.12195
With R. Brown (2022). A HOROR Theory for Introspective Consciousness, Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 29, no.11-12.https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.29.11.155
Renero, A. (2019). Modes of Introspective Access: A pluralist Approach, Philosophia (online version 2018) and Philosophia vol. 47, no. 3: 823–844. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-018-9989-2 10.
Renero, A. (2014). Consciousness and Mental Qualities for Auditory Sensations, Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 21, no. 9-10: 179-204. https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.21.9.179
Renero, A. (2013). Nous and Aisthésis: Two Cognitive Faculties in Aristotle, Méthexis, International Journal for Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXVI: 103-120. https://doi.org/10.1163/24680974-90000616
Renero, A. (2009). Experience and Consciousness: Enhancing the Notion of Musical Understanding Critica, vol. 41, no. 121: 23-46. https://doi.org/10.22201/iifs.18704905e.2009.963
Published Dissertation:
Renero, A. (2017). The Nature of Introspection, CUNY Academic Works https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/2144/
Chapters in Volumes or Special Issues:
Renero, A. (2023). The Routes of Introspection. In What forms could introspective systems take? A Research Programme. Kammerer and Frankish (eds.), Journal of Consciousness Studies, 30, No. 9–10, 2023, pp. 174–87 https://doi.org/10.53765/20512201.30.9.174.
With R. Parikh (2017). Justified True Belief: Plato, Gettier, and Turing. In Turing 100: Philosophical Explorations of the Legacy of Alan Turing, eds. Juliet Floyd & Alisa Bokulich, Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, Springer.
Translation from English to Spanish:
Renero, A. (2023). Translation of Susanna Siegel's "Affordances and The Contents of Perception" (2014) to Spanish, in Lo que el mundo nos ofrece. Ensayos filosóficos sobre affordances o potencialidades de acción (Pérez, L. & Peláez A.), UAM.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles in Spanish:
Renero, A. (2007). Identidad y entendimiento. Schelling o una instancia intermedia entre Kant y Hegel, En-Claves del Pensamiento, vol. 1, no. 2: 23-45.
Renero, A. (2007). La estética de Hegel: reflexión sobre la forma romántica del arte en la catedral gótica, Avatares, vol.10, no. 28: 21-33.
Renero, A. (2007). Recuerdo y permanencia: una lectura sobre el poema Andenken de F. Hölderlin, Estudios: Filosofía, Historia, Arte, vol. V, no. 81: 109-118.
Renero, A. (2006) ¿Qué es el límite?, Ciencia y Desarrollo, vol. 32, no. 199: 16-21.
Renero, A. (2006). Logos, Eros y Poiesis: sobre el poema Quejas de Menón por Diótima de F. Hölderlin, Revista Digital Universitaria UNAM, vol. 7, no. 5:1-12.
Renero, A. (2005). Psyché y Eros en Platón, Avatares, vol. 8, no. 24: 49-62.
Renero, A. (2005). La música en los cultos dionisiacos, Intersticios: Filosofía, Arte, Religión, vol. 10, no. 22-23: 259-271.
Chapters in Volumes in Spanish:
Renero, A. (2010). Emoción y cognición en música, en Identidad y Diferencia: la filosofía y la ciencia (Labastida y Aréchiga, Eds.), vol. 3, Siglo XXI Editores: 318-24.
Renero, A. (2007). La noción de límite en el pensamiento de Eugenio Trías, en El saber filosófico: antiguo y moderno (Martínez Contreras y Ponce de León, Eds.), vol. I, Siglo XXI: 207-215.
Reviews in Spanish:
Renero, A. (2007). Reseña del libro: "Consideraciones estéticas sobre la hermenéutica de Gadamer” de María Antonia González. Diánoia, vol. LIII, no. 59: 232-41.
Renero, A. (2005). Reseña del libro: "Ética y Condición Humana” de Eugenio Trías. Habitar el límite: una aproximación a la ética de Eugenio Trías, Revista Digital Universitaria, UNAM, vol. 6, no. 4: 154.
Selected Talks
A HOROR Theory for Introspective Consciousness, with R. Brown
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, NYU
New York, NY
(Mis)-understanding Kripke with N. Salmon & T. Robertson Ishii
Invited Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Comments to D. Stoljar and N. Silins: Introspection and Self-knowledge
Invited Symposium, American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division Meeting, Montreal, Canada
Ignorance
A discussion with Khenpo Pemma Wangdak
The Rubin Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Kripke's Knowledge Argument against Materialism (in Spanish)
CLEPO y Facultad de Filosofía y Sociedad
Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
The Value of Introspection
Forum for Human Values, Center for Human Values
Princeton University, NJ
Experiences, Series of Seminars in Philosophy of Mind
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Kripke Argument Against Materialism
Saul Kripke Seminar
The Graduate Center, CUNY
How does introspection operate?
Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC 23)
Western University, London, ON Canada, June 25-28
The Routes of Introspection
Lecture Series
Mira Group, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
A Pluralist Theory of Introspection
Cognition, Development & Psychopathology: Subjectivity and Consciousness
CARE Seminar, Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile
Introspection about Decision-Making Process
Workshop on Introspection and Self-knowledge
California State University at Chico
Selective and Voluntary Attention in Introspection
Virtues of Attention Workshop
NYU Shanghai, China
Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas
UNAM, Mexico City
Kripke’s Unpublished Knowledge Argument (presented with Saul Kripke)
Center for Mind, Brain, and Consciousness
New York University
A New Pluralist Model of Introspection
Harvard Workshop on Mind and Reality and Philosophy Department UP
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Consciencia de estados mentales y procesos
Conferencia Magistral, Facultad de Filosofía
Universidad Panamericana, Mexico City
Addressing Skeptical Challenges to Introspection
Centre for Philosophical Psychology
University of Antwerp, Belgium (paper submitted)
Kripke’s Unpublished Knowledge Argument
CUNY, the Graduate Center
The Deaf Person Case
Tokyo Colloquium of Cognitive Philosophy
and the Tokyo Forum for Analytic Philosophy
University of Tokyo, Japan
Sounds and Auditory Experience
Colors, Sounds, Numbers, Names, Inferences, Minds
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, CDMX
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