JOSH WEISBERG
640 East 2nd Street, #BB-2 November, 2006
Brooklyn NY 11218
Program in Philosophy
Graduate School and University Center
City University of New York
365 Fifth Avenue
New York NY 10016-4309
Internet: jwsleep@aol.com
Web: http://www.joshweisberg.com
AOS: Philosophy of Mind, Cognitive Science
AOC: Metaphysics, Epistemology, Ethics, Philosophy of Language
Education:
Ph.D., CUNY Graduate Center, November 2006.
Dissertation: "The Problem of Consciousness: Mental Appearance and Mental Reality," David M. Rosenthal, advisor; additional committee members, Michael Devitt, Douglas Lackey.
M.A., CUNY Graduate Center, October 1998.
B.A., New York University, June 1991, major in philosophy.
Employment:
Hunter College, CUNY
Adjunct Lecturer,2005-present, Graduate "A" Teaching Fellow 2001-2005, Lecturer 1999-2000, Teaching Assistant 1998-1999.
Nassau Community College
Adjunct Lecturer, Summer 2006-present.
Honors and Fellowships:
CUNY Graduate Center, Program in Philosophy, Ph.D., Honors, November, 2006.
Cognitive Science Society Travel Grant, July 2001.
CUNY Graduate Center University Fellowship, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.
PSC/CUNY Tuition Award, 1999-2000, 2002-2003.
CUNY Graduate Center Student Travel and Research Grant, 2001-2002.
CUNY Graduate Center, Program in Philosophy Oral Exam, Honors, September 1999.
Articles:
1. "Same Old, Same Old: The Same-Order Representation Theory of Consciousness and the Division of Phenomenal Labor," forthcoming, Synthese.
2. "Conscious Constrained: A Commentary on Thomas Metzinger's Being No One," PSYCHE, 8, 17, a symposium on Thomas Metzinger's Being No One, ed. Dorothée Legrand (June 2005); at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/symposia/metzinger/Weisberg.pdf.
3. "The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of the Unity of Consciousness," Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, ed. Johanna D. Moore and Keith Stenning, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, pp. 1117-1121, 2001.
4. "Active, Thin, and HOT! An Actualist Response to Carruthers' Dispositionalist HOT View," PSYCHE, 5, 6, a symposium on Peter Carruthers's Animal Subjectivity, ed. Colin Allen and Ann Wolfe (April 1999); at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v5/psyche-5-06-weisberg.html.
Submitted Articles:
1. "Misrepresenting Consciousness," submitted to Philosophical Studies.
2. "The Problem of the 'Empty' Higher-Order Representation," submitted to Analysis.
Reviews:
1. "Red in the Head: A Review of Nicholas Humphrey's Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness," Nature, 441, 7093, (June 2006).
2. "Being All That We Can Be: A Critical Review of Thomas Metzinger's Being No One: The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity," Journal of Consciousness Studies, 10, 11, pp. 89-96 (November 2003).
3. "Everything You Wanted to Know About Consciousness but Were Afraid to Ask: A Review of The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, Edited by Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, & Güven Güzeldere," PSYCHE, 8, 17, (October 2002); at http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/book_reviews/blocketal/.
4. Review of The Significance of Consciousness by Charles Siewert, Metapsychology Online Book Reviews (October 2001); at http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=786.
5. Review of The Mind Doesn’t Work That Way: The Scope and Limits of Computational Psychology by Jerry Fodor, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 8, 8, pp. 75-76 (August 2001).
6. Review of Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem, edited by Jonathan Shear, Metapsychology Online Book Reviews (May 2001); at http://mentalhelp.net/books/books.php?type=de&id=604.
7. Review of Consciousness in Action by Susan Hurley, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, 5, pp. 83-84 (May 2000).
8. Review of Consciousness and Qualia by Leopold Stubenberg, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6, 4, pp. 154-155 (April 1999).
Conference Presentations:
1. "Self-Representational Theory and the Misrepresentation of Consciousness," Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, April 2006.
2. "A Limited Defense of the Ability Hypothesis," Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Pasadena, June 2005.
3. "Is There a Difference Between 'Higher-order-' and 'Same-order-' Monitoring Theories of Consciousness," Conference on Self-Representational Approaches to Consciousness, University of Arizona, Tucson, March 2005.
4. "Cognitive Systems: A Philosophical Perspective," Information Science and Technology Workshop, IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, May 2004.
5. "Reduction, Entailment, and Analysis: Some Worries for the Chalmers/Jackson Model of Reductive Explanation," Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, April 2004.
6. "Ships in the Night: Comments on Mascarenhas's 'Physicalism and Phenomenalism: Ever the Twain Shall Meet,'" New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association Conference, Lodi, NJ, November 2003.
7. "Wine, Words, and What it's Like," Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Barcelona, June 2002.
8. "Dispositions and the Occurrence of Conscious Mental States," Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, April 2002.
9. "Neo-Brentanian Loops: A Commentary on Kriegel's 'Three Concepts of Consciousness,'" CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, November 2001.
10. "The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of the Unity of Consciousness," Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, July 2001.
11. "The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of the Unity of Consciousness," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Cincinnati, June 2001.
12. "Expectation, Error, and Consciousness," Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke University, June 2001.
13. "HOT Enough: Commentary on Caruso and Vlahos," New Jersey Regional Philosophy Association Conference, Lodi, NJ, November 2000.
14. "The Appearance of Unity: A Higher-Order Interpretation of the Unity of Consciousness," Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Brussels, June 2000.
15. "A HOT Day on Inverted Earth," Towards a Science of Consciousness, Tucson, April 2000.
16. "If You Can't Stand the Heat, Get Out of the Kitchen: A HOT Response to Byrne," Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Stanford, June 1999.
17. "Representation and Misrepresentation: Comments on Kriegel's 'Supervenience and Mental Representation,'" Midsouth Philosophy Conference, Memphis, April 1999.
18. "An Expert in Mind: Sellars' Jones and Gopnik's Child Scientists," Washington University at St. Louis Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, September 1998.
19. "Projecting Kim: Anti-Anti-Reductionism in Biology and Psychology," CUNY Graduate Center Graduate Student Philosophy Conference, April 1998.
20. "Reducing the Jerrymander: Anti-Anti-Reductionism in Biology and Psychology," Naturalism, Evolution and Intentionality: An Interdisciplinary Conference in the Philosophy of Mind, University of Western Ontario, April 1998.
21. CUNY Cognitive Science Symposium
"How Well do We Know Our Own Minds?", August 2006;
"A Limited Defense of the Ability Hypothesis," June 2005;
"Is this Trip Really Necessary?", March 2004;
"Wine, Words, and What it's Like," July 2002;
"Dispositions and Consciousness," March 2002.
Courses Taught:
Philosophy of Mind (1 semester)
Philosophical Psychology (6 semesters)
Knowledge and Reality—An Introduction to Epistemology and Metaphysics
(5 semesters)
Introduction to Ethics (5 semesters)
Introduction to Logic (4 semesters)
Introduction to Philosophy (9 semesters)
Maps of Knowledge—Humanities 110 (TA for Alan Hausman, 2 semesters).
References:
David M. Rosenthal, Program in Philosophy.
Michael Devitt, Program in Philosophy.
Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York NY, 10016-4309,
Jesse Prinz, Department of Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Caldwell Hall, UNC/Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC 27599.
Pete Mandik, Chairperson, Department of Philosophy, William Patterson University, 265 Atrium Building, 300 Pompton Road, Wayne NJ, 07470.
Teaching Reference:
Alan Hausman, Department of Philosophy, Hunter College of the City University of New York, 695 Park Avenue, New York NY, 10021.
All letters of reference available from: Office of the Vice-President for Student Affairs, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10016-4309, jkoster@gc.cuny.edu.