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USI campus to reopen, classes resume, January 28

Change is never easy, and we know this is a challenging time as you navigate recent announcements affecting programs and operations at Oakland City University. We want you to know that your educational journey doesn’t have to pause.

At the University of Southern Indiana, we are fully committed to helping you transition seamlessly so you can stay on track with your education journey. We’ve designed this dedicated page specifically for you to explore our programs, access resources, learn about credit transfers and continue your education with minimal interruption.

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Rocco Gennaro

About the Expert

Rocco Gennaro is a Professor of Philosophy at USI. He received his doctorate from Syracuse University in 1991. Gennaro's primary research and teaching interests are in philosophy of mind/cognitive science with an emphasis in consciousness, metaphysics, early modern history of philosophy, ethics and applied ethics. He has published 11 books as a sole author or editor and over 60 articles and book chapters in these areas. Some of his published works as an author include his books The Consciousness Paradox: Consciousness Concepts, and Higher-Order Thoughts (MIT Press, 2012) and Consciousness (Routledge Press, 2017), as an editor, Disturbed Consciousness: New Essays on Psychopathologies and Theories of Consciousness (MIT Press, 2015) and The Routledge Handbook of Consciousness (2018). In 2020, he published Mind and Brain; a dialogue on the mind-body problem (Hackett Publishers, second edition) He is also the Philosophy of Mind/Cognitive Science area editor for the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.