Consuelo Preti

I shall indeed be heartily relieved when I ... can get away from here. It is not so much that I have overworked, but rather that it is so difficult to force myself to work as much as the approach of the necessary end seems to demand. It is a constant preoccupation that there is more to do than would take up all my time, and a temptation to do less, than could be done, because all that should, cannot.

Moore, letter to parents (August 26, 1897)

Associate Professor

Dept. of Philosophy

The College of New Jersey

Ewing, NJ 08628

609. 771. 2524

preti@tcnj.edu

 My AOS is early analytic philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind. My AOC is 20th century analytic philosophy, metaphysics, and cognitive science. For the past few years I have been working on the early philosophy of G.E. Moore. In 2007 I received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society for work in the Moore archives.

Books:

On Fodor (Wadsworth): 2000

On Kripke (Wadsworth): 2002

"On the Origins of the Contemporary Notion of  Propositional Content: Anti-Psychologism in 19^th Century Psychology and G.E. Moore’s Early Theory of Judgment," forthcoming in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, Part C.

 "A Defense of Common Sense," in On Bullshit (Open Court), 2006.

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