Dr Dawn Wilson

Dr Dawn Wilson

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Business, Law and Politics
  • School of Politics and International Studies

Qualifications

  • PhD / DPhil (Durham University)

Summary

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 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

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 2024-25 are:

441122 Reason, Logic and Argument

441124 Creation, Persistence, Destruction: Problems in Metaphysics

551575 Environments and Philosophy

662101 Our Digital Age: Philosophy and Technological Innovation

Philosophy Research Project (Dissertation)

Modules I have taught in previous years include:

Philosophical Revolutionaries

Detection, Depiction, Deception: The Philosophy of Photography

20th Century Analytic and Continental Philosophy

The Philosophy of Contemporary Thought and Culture

Wittgenstein, Language and Reality

(PGT) Philosophical Texts

(PGT) Philosophical Research Methods

(PGT) Philosophy in Practice

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

Music, Visualization and the Multi-Stage Account of Photography

Wilson, D. (2024). Music, Visualization and the Multi-Stage Account of Photography. Debates in Aesthetics, 18(2), 13-46

Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion

Wilson, D. (2024). Covers, Concreteness, and Craft: A Reply To Giupponi, Pettersson and Campion. Debates in Aesthetics, 18(2), 101-118

What Is A Photographic Register?

Wilson, D. M. (in press). What Is A Photographic Register?. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaac/kpad027

Against Imprinting: The Photographic Image as a Source of Evidence

Wilson, D. M. (in press). Against Imprinting: The Photographic Image as a Source of Evidence. Social Research: An International Quarterly, 89(4),

Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture

Wilson, D. (2022). Reflecting, Registering, Recording and Representing: From Light Image to Photographic Picture. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 122(2), 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1093/arisoc/aoac008

Research interests

Philosophy of photography

Philosophy of images / Bildtheorie

Aesthetics

Philosophy of art

Image technology

History of analytic philosophy

Wittgenstein

Postgraduate supervision

I am available to supervise projects on topics such as:

Philosophy of photography

Philosophy and AI image technology

Aesthetics

Philosophy of art

Portraiture

Philosophy of images and depiction

Wittgenstein

History of analytic philosophy

Journal editorial role

Editorial Board of the British Journal of Aesthetics

2020

National/International learned society/body role

Vice-President of the British Society of Aesthetics

2024 - 2027

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