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| Born | 28 March 1951 |
| Awards | Leibniz Society of America Essay Prize |
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| Thesis | Visual Impressions and Visual Experience (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | George Pitcher |
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| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| Doctoral students | David R. Morrow |
Catherine Warren Wilson FRSC (born 28 March 1951) [1] 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.
Wilson was born in New York into a family of scientists and mathematicians. She attended a Quaker boarding school in Westtown,Pennsylvania,and attended Vassar College in Poughkeepsie,New York,before transferring to Yale University in 1969. She took a B.Phil. in philosophy with Gareth Evans and Peter Seuren at Oxford in 1974 and a Ph.D. in philosophy at Princeton in 1977. After holding academic posts in the US and Canada,and fellowships at Cambridge University and in Konstanz and Berlin,she moved to the UK in 2009.
She was Anniversary Professor of Philosophy at the University of York (2012–2018). Before that,she was Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen (2009–2012). [2] Wilson is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a former president of Mind Association of Great Britain.
Her podcasts have included:
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