Research Interests

 
 

Although most of my own experience and writing is in the so-called Anglophile, or analytic, tradition of Western philosophy, I am interested in a wide range of traditions of philosophical thought, including Eastern and continental philosophy, some of which I have studied at undergraduate level. Following Quine, I see philosophy as being more or less continuous with (although also very different to) science, and so very much prefer an interdisciplinary approach that takes various scientific, linguistic and other cultural factors into account rather than purely a priori argument. Indeed, many of the questions that interest me most (see opposite) are current topics of debate amongst the scientific, as well as philosophical, community.


Much of my studies to date have been broadly concerned with the philosophy of mind, which is a specialism I hope to develop further at postgraduate level and beyond. I have particular interests the philosophy of perception and consciousness, as well as a general interest in issues of logic, language and epistemology that underpin any type of philosophical enquiry. My other great philosophical passion is the nature of time, an enquiry that combines physical, metaphysical, logical and phenomenological dimensions, and also has a close connection with conscious awareness as well as more general issues concerning subjectivity and objectivity, which also interest me greatly.

What you should know


Name:

Keith A. Wilson


Education:

BA (Hons.) with Distinction, University of York; M.Litt., University of St Andrews (currently studying)


Subject areas:

Philosophy of mind and language (particularly perception and consciousness), the metaphysics of space and time, ancient philosophy, philosophy of science, physics and psychology, epistemology and contextualism


Favourite philosophers:

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Thomas Reid, Martin Heidegger, John McDowell, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Plato


Favourite works:

Philosophical Investigations,

The Phenomenology of Perception,

Being and Time


Favourite Quotes:

‘Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of our language.’

— Ludwig Wittgenstein



Selected Writing

  1. 1.What the Disjunctivist Knows

  2. 2.Direct Realism and Visible Figure

  3. 3.Time, Tense and Adverbial Change

  4. 4.Does Attention Exist?

  5. 5.Plato’s Theory of Happiness

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Web links

  1. 1.PhilosophyWiki.org

  2. 2.Squashed Philosophers

  3. 3.Philosopher Profiles

  4. 4.Dialectic online magazine

  5. 5.Philosophers & Philosophy Facebook application

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