Catherine Wilson (philosopher)
Catherine Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 March 1951 |
| Awards | Leibniz Society of America Essay Prize |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Visual Impressions and Visual Experience (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Pitcher |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Doctoral students | David R. Morrow |
Catherine Warren Wilson FRSC (born 28 March 1951) is a British/American/Canadian philosopher. Wilson taught at the University of Oregon, University of Alberta, University of British Columbia, City College of NYC, University of Aberdeen and was formerly Anniversary Professor at the University of York. From 2009 to 2012, she served as the Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen. She is known for her interdisciplinary studies of visuality, moral psychology and aesthetics, and especially early microscopy and Epicurean atomism and materialism.