

About Me
Name: Keith A. Wilson
Location: Leamington Spa
Country: United Kingdom
Education:
2008–present: Ph.D. student, University of Warwick
2007–2008: M.Litt. (Distinction), University of St Andrews
2004–2007: B.A. (Hons. with Distinction), University of York
Subject areas:
Philosophy of mind, esp. perception and non-conceptual content; the metaphysics and consciousness of time and space; philosophy of science, esp. physics, psychology and cognitive science.
Favourite philosophers:
Thomas Reid, Ludwig Wittgenstein, John McDowell, Timothy Williamson, Francisco Varela Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger
Favourite works:
Philosophical Investigations,
An Enquiry into the Human Mind on the Principles of Common Sense, 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

Web links
•Dialectic (online magazine)
•Philosophers & Philosophy (Facebook application)
Although most of my experience and writing is in the so-called Anglophile or analytic tradition of Western philosophy, I am also interested in other philosophical traditions, including Eastern and continental philosophy, some of which I have studied at undergraduate level. I am also very much interested in science — particularly physics and psychology — and interdisciplinary approaches to philosophical debate that takes scientific, linguistic and cultural factors into account, rather than being based purely upon a priori argument. Indeed, many of the questions that interest me most 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 intend to develop further at Ph.D. 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 all types of philosophical enquiry. My other philosophical passion concerns the nature of time, an enquiry that combines physical, metaphysical, logical, psychological and phenomenological dimensions, and also has a close connection with conscious awareness as well as more general issues concerning subjectivity and objectivity that also interest me greatly.
Philosophical profile