Prof. Catherine Wilson
(Former)
Previous Employment: Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy, University of Aberdeen, 2009-12
Employment
Anniversary Professor
Professor
Philosophy
University of YorkUnited Kingdom
1 Aug 2012 → 31 Aug 2018
Research output
Descartes and Cartesianism: Essays in Honour of Desmond Clarke
Wilson, C. (ed.) & Gaukroger, S. (ed.), 4 Feb 2017, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 240 p.Metaethics From a First-Person Standpoint: An Introduction to Moral Philosophy
Wilson, C., 2016, London: Open Book Publishers. 124 p.A Very Short Introduction to Epicureanism
Wilson, C., 2015, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 160 p.Leibniz's Metaphysics: A Historical and Comparative Study
Wilson, C., 2015, Princeton University Press.The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy in Early Modern Europe
Wilson, C. & Clarke, D., 2011, Oxford University Press.Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity
Wilson, C., 2008, Oxford: Clarendon Press. 318 p.Moral Animals: Ideals and Constraints in Moral Theory
Wilson, C., 2004, Oxford: Clarendon Press.The Invisible World: Philosophers and the Microscope 1640-1740
Wilson, C., 1995, Princeton University Press.Research output
Consciousness as a Biological Phenomenon: An Alternative to Panpsychism
Wilson, C., 5 Jun 2018, (Accepted/In press)Article in Harvard Review of Philosophy
Why Do We Study Leibniz (After 300 Years)?
Wilson, C., Apr 2017Article in The Leibniz Review
The Scientific Perspective on Moral Objectivity
Wilson, C., 21 Mar 2017Article in Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
The living Individual: Leibniz and Buffon
Wilson, C., 2017Article in Studia Leibnitiana Supplementa
‘Before, Above, Beneath, Below: Metaphysics and Science in Descartes’
Wilson, C., 2017Article in Philosophical Topics
Another Darwinian Aesthetics
Wilson, C., 26 Jul 2016Article in Journal of aesthetics and art criticism
Internal Reasons and the Limits of Philosophy
Wilson, C., 2016Article in Philosophical Inquiries
The Doors of Perception and the Artist Within
Wilson, C., 1 Jun 2015Article in Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume
Mach, Musil and Modernism
Wilson, C., Jan 2014Article in The Monist
The Concept of ‘the Organism’ in the Philosophy of Biology
Wilson, C., 2014Article in Verifiche
Grief and the Poet
Wilson, C., Jan 2013Article in British journal of aesthetics
Darwin and Nietzsche: Selection, Evolution, and Morality
Wilson, C., 2013Article in Journal of Nietzsche Studies
Materialism-Animalism-Socialism: The Anthropology of Marx and Engels
Wilson, C., 2013Article in Social Science (China)
Moral Truth: Observational or Theoretical?
Wilson, C., Apr 2011Article in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
‘Moral Progress without Moral Realism’
Wilson, C., Mar 2010Article in Philosophical Papers
‘Darwinian Morality’
Wilson, C., 2009Article in Evolution: Education and Outreach
‘Organic Mechanism and the Soul of Science’
Wilson, C., 2009Article in Canadian Bulletin of Medical History
‘The Enlightenment Philosopher as Social Critic’
Wilson, C., 2008Article in Intellectual history review