Adriana

Renero

Philosopher

About me

I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness as well as a Visiting Research Scholar in the Philosophy of Mind at the Saul Kripke Center at the City University of New York (CUNY), Graduate Center.

I earned my Ph.D. in Philosophy from the CUNY, Graduate Center, Philosophy Program (2017). I also have an M.A. in Philosophy from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM).

My research interests include the philosophy of mind and philosophy of cognitive science

(in particular, problems on introspection, consciousness, and auditory perception). I am also interested in epistemology, the history of philosophy, and aesthetics.

I currently serve on the advisory board of SWIP-Analytic New York, of which I was the director from 2015 to 2017. Additionally, I was the founder and director of SWIP-Analytic México from 2016 to 2019, and co-founder of SWIP-Analytic Spain in 2018.

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Work in progress

I am currently working on “Kripke’s Unpublished Knowledge Argument”

In his unpublished 1979 lectures on the philosophy of mind, Kripke offers another argument against the physicalist thesis that “one who knows all the physical truths—or all the physical facts—knows everything.” This argument appeals to the auditory domain. In this work, I discuss several cases of deaf people, which Kripke provides, and adapt these into one single case: the deaf person case. Then I claim that this is a precursor of Frank Jackson’s “knowledge argument against physicalism” i.e. the often-quoted “Mary case” (1982). In doing so, I compare and contrast Kripke and Jackson’s cases, and argue that the deaf person case constitutes a more persuasive argument against physicalism. I also show that Kripke offers an account of descriptions of the phenomenal character of auditory experiences and pinpoints important aspects of phenomenal character that Jackson does not address.

Publications

Renero, Adriana (2018). Modes of Introspective Access, Philosophia.

--- With Rohit 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.

--- (2014). Consciousness and Mental Qualities for Auditory Sensations, Journal of Consciousness Studies, vol. 21, no. 9-10: 179-204.

--- (2013). Nous and Aisthésis: Two Cognitive Faculties in Aristotle, Méthexis, International Journal for Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXVI: 103-120.

--- (2010). Emoción y Cognición, en Identidad y Diferencia (Labastida J. and Aréchiga V. Eds.), vol. 3, Siglo XXI Editores, pp. 318-24.

--- (2009). Experience and Consciousness: Enhancing the Notion of Musical Understanding, Crítica, vol. 41, no. 121: 23-46.

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