Dr Dawn Wilson
| Biography | I joined the University of Hull in October 2011, having previously worked at St Anne's College, Oxford and the universities of Warwick, Southampton, Kent, Durham, and University College Cork. I have published a multi-stage account of photography which has been internationally recognised as a new direction in the Philosophy of Photography. I am currently working on new articles and a book and I teach a module on the philosophy of photography: 'Detection, Depiction, Deception'. I collaborate with interdisciplinary and international research networks on projects dedicated to photography, art, perception, image-theory, and cultural conservation, including: Photographs: Perception and Changes. An interdisciplinary network on photography and its reception Art and the Limits of Perception (Part of the SPIN network). A network bringing together aestheticians and philosophers of perception White Rose Aesthetics Forum. A collaboration of Philosophers working in Aesthetics at Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York The (In Parenthesis) Project Anglo-German Bildtheorie/Picture Theory International Research Group |
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| Research Interests | Philosophy of photography Philosophy of images / Bildtheorie Aesthetics Philosophy of art Image technology History of analytic philosophy Wittgenstein |
| Teaching and Learning | I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCHE) I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) The modules I will teach in 2022-23 are: Reason, Logic and Argument Creation, Persistence, Destruction: Problems in Metaphysics Detection, Depiction, Deception: The Philosophy of Photography Philosophy Dissertation Modules I have taught in previous years include: 20th Century Analytic and Continental Philosophy The Philosophy of Contemporary Thought and Culture Wittgenstein, Language and Reality Philosophical Texts Philosophical Research Methods Philosophy in Practice |
| Scopus Author ID | 55478367800 |
| PhD Supervision Availability | Yes |
| PhD Topics | Philosophy of photography Aesthetics Philosophy of art Portraiture Philosophy of images and depiction Wittgenstein History of analytic philosophy |