Edward Lenzo Visiting Assistant Professor, Philosophy |
Education
Ph.D., University of Memphis
M.A., Colorado State University
B.A., Rutgers University
Teaching Interests
Dr. Lenzo teaches introductory courses in philosophy, including Being & Knowing, and Principles of Reasoning. He designs his courses around the development of independent thought. It is always important to remember: if you are unable or unwilling to think for yourself, there are plenty of people who are happy to do it for you.
He also teaches mid and upper-level courses in Phenomenology (sometimes described as the philosophical study of structures of consciousness), Indian Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, and applied ethics, including Ethics of Emerging Technologies, Biomedical Ethics, and Neuroethics.
Research, Scholarship or Creative/Artistic Interests
Dr. Lenzo is interested in dimensions of human experience, particularly perceptual and ethical. The three main areas of his research are fundamental questions at the intersection of ethics and ontology, like how a sense of responsibility does or does not contribute to our understanding of the world; questions in philosophy of technology, especially AI and digital platforms, such as whether interactions between humans and LLMs could be meaningfully described as “interpersonal,” and related ethical implications; and how to make sense of experience one may not be personally familiar with, for example, in the case of seemingly profound experiential differences in the context of psychopathology.
His work is interdisciplinary in nature, being based in both philosophy—especially history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology—as well as contemporary cognitive science.