Jennifer Church Vassar College Department of Philosophy Box 419 124 Raymond Avenue Poughkeepsie NY 12604 Department Tel: 845-437-5530 e-mail: church@vassar.edu

Jennifer Church is Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. Her research addresses various topics in the philosophy of mind, including consciousness, the emotions, irrationality, and imagination. She also is interested in Kant, Freud, feminist theory, and the philosophy of music.

Professor Church received her B.A. from Macalester College and her PhD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was a graduate student at Somerville College at Oxford University and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

At Vassar College Ms. Church teaches classes in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychoanalysis, feminist theory, Kant, philosophy and the arts, and consciousness.

Publications include:

• "Reasons of which Reason Knows Not" and "Space and Normativity" (replies to commentators), Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology,Vol. 12, No.1, March 2005, pp. 31-41 and 59-61.


• "Making Order out of Disorder: on the Social Construction of Madness", The Oxford Reader in the Philosophy of Psychiatry, edited by Jennifer Radden, Oxford Press, 2004.


• "Depression, Depth, and the Imagination", Chapter 9, Imagination and its Pathologies, edited by James Phillips and James Morris, MIT Press, 2002: 335-360.


• "Taking It To Heart: What Choice Do We Have?", Monist85:3 (July 2002): 205-221.


• "Opening the 'Gap' on Depression: From Monotony to Meaning", co-authored with Beverly Haviland,Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, vol.24 no.2 (2001): 153-175.


• "'Seeing As' and the Double Bind of Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness StudiesÊ vol.7 no.8/9 (2000): 99-111.


• Comments on Susan Hurley's Consciousness in Action, Philosophical Review (July 2000): 153-157.


• "Two Sorts of Consciousness?", Communication and Cognition, vol.31 no.1 (1998): 57-72.


• "Fallacies or Analyses?", Behavioral and Brain Sciences vol. 18 no.2 (1995): 151-2.Ê Reprinted in The Nature of Consciousness, eds. Ned Block, Owen Flanagan, and Guven Guzeldere. MIT, 1997.


• "Ownership and the Body", Feminists Rethink the Self, edited by Diana Meyers, Westview Press, 1997, pp. 85-104.


• "L'emotion et l'interiorisation des actions", Raisons Pratiques 6: La couleur des pensees, edited by P. Paperman & R. Ogien. Paris: Editions de l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, (1995): 219-236.


• "Morality and the Internalized Other", The Cambridge Companion to Freud, edited by Jerome Neu, Cambridge Press, 1991, pp. 209-223.


• "Rethinking Dichotomies: Reflections on Adrienne Rich's 'What Is Possible'", Women'sÊ Studies,Ê vol.17 no. 3-4 (1990): 289-302.


• "Judgment, Self-Consciousness, and Object Independence", American Philosophical Quarterly, v.27 no.1 (1990): 51-61.


• "Reasonable Irrationality", Mind, vol.96 no.3 (1987): 354-366.

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