Adriana

Renero

Philosopher

Photo by Pau Treviño, 2018

About me

I am currently a Lecturer in the Philosophy of Mind at Princeton University, Department of Philosophy 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 just finished my last year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NYU Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness (2017-2021).

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, the mind-body problem, problems on introspection, consciousness, and auditory perception). I am also interested in epistemology, the history of philosophy, and philosophy of sounds and music.

I served on the advisory board of SWIP-Analytic New York (now called SWIP-NYC) from 2018 to 2020, 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.

Find also my profile at ORCID

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Adriana_Renero

https://nyu.academia.edu/AdrianaRenero

Last Update: December 2021.

More about me

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I am currently working on “Kripke’s Unpublished Knowledge Argument”

In his unpublished 1979 lectures on the philosophy of mind, Kripke offers another argument against the physicalist thesis that “one who knows all the physical truths—or all the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.

I am also working on other papers:

“Experiencing Sound through Time”

“The Routes of Introspection”

"The Value of Introspective Awareness"

“An Integrative Theory of Introspection” (co-author)

"A Higher-Order Representation Theory of Introspective Consciousness" (co-author)

Translation of Susanna Siegel's "Affordances and The Contents of Perception" (2014) to Spanish.

Publications See my Philpapers

In English:

Click on titles to see pre-print papers or click on journal's name to open journal's site.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

Renero, Adriana (2019 printed version). Modes of Introspective Access, Philosophia (online version 2018) and Philosophia vol. 47, no. 3: 823–844.

--- (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.

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

Chapters in Volumes:

--- 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.

In Spanish

Click on journal's name to get a PDF version of my paper from the journal's website.

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles:

--- (2007). Identidad y entendimiento. Schelling o una instancia intermedia entre Kant y Hegel, En-Claves del Pensamiento, vol. 1, no. 2: 23-45.

--- (2007). La estética de Hegel: reflexión sobre la forma romántica del arte en la catedral gótica, Avatares, vol.10, no. 28: 21-33.

--- (2007). Recuerdo y permanencia: una lectura sobre el poema Andenken de Friedrich Hölderlin, Estudios: Filosofía, Historia, Arte, vol. V, no. 81: 109-118.

--- (2006) ¿Qué es el límite?, Ciencia y Desarrollo, vol. 32, no. 199: 16-21.

--- (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.

--- (2005). Psyché y Eros en Platón, Avatares, vol. 8, no. 24: 49-62.

--- (2005). La música en los cultos dionisiacos, Intersticios: Filosofía, Arte, Religión, vol. 10, no. 22-23: 259-271.

Chapters in Volumes:

--- (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.

--- (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:

--- (2007). "Consideraciones estéticas sobre la hermenéutica de Gadamer” (María Antonia González) Diánoia, vol. LIII, no. 59: 232-41.

--- (2005). "Ética y Condición Humana” (Eugenio Trías), Habitar el límite: una aproximación a la ética de Eugenio Trías, Revista Digital Universitaria, UNAM, vol. 6, no. 4: 154.