John Hyman (philosopher)
John Hyman (philosopher) (born 6 March 1960) is a British philosopher and Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford.
Hyman received his BA, BPhil and DPhil at the University of Oxford, and was elected to a Fellowship at The Queen’s College, Oxford in 1988. He has edited the British Journal of Aesthetics since 2008. He held a Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, in 2001-2002, a Fellowship at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2002-2003, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship in 2010-2012. He was Professeur Invité in the UFR de Philosophie at the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) in 2014-2015.
His research is in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, and Wittgenstein.[1] He is known for his analysis of knowledge as an ability, and for his criticism of the idea that neuroscience can explain the nature of art.
Publications
The following is a partial list of Hyman's publications.
Monographs
- Action, Knowledge, and Will. Oxford University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-0198735779. (abstract)
- The Objective Eye: color, form and reality in the theory of art. Chicago University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0226365534. (abstract)
- The Imitation of Nature. Blackwell, 1989, ISBN 978-0071365017.
Edited volumes
- Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy. Essays for P. M. S. Hacker (with Hans-Johann Glock). Oxford University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0199213238. (abstract)
- Agency and Action (with Helen Steward). Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0521603560.
- Investigating Psychology. (with Helen Steward). Routledge, 1991. ISBN 978-0415019828.
Articles
Knowledge and perception
- ‘The most general factive stative attitude’, Analysis, 2014. 561–565.
- ‘The road to Larissa’, Ratio Special Issue: Agents and their Actions, ed. M. De Gaynesford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- ‘Knowledge and evidence’, Mind, 2006. 633–658.
- ‘What, if anything, are colours relative to?’, Philosophy, 2005. 475–494.
- ‘How knowledge works’, Phil. Quarterly, October 1999. 433–451; German translation: “Wie Wissen funktioniert’, in Conceptions of Knowledge, ed. Stefan Tolksdorf, de Gruyter, 2012. 101–125.
- ‘Vision and power’, The Journal of Philosophy, 1994. 235–252.
- ‘The causal theory of perception’, Phil. Quarterly, 1992. 277–296.
Visual Arts
- ‘Depiction’, in Philosophy and the Arts, ed. A. O’Hear, CUP, 2013; repr. in What Are Artworks, and How Do We Experience Them?, ed. Peer F. Bundgaard, Springer, 2015.
- ‘Art and neuroscience’, originally published online, 'Art and Cognition Workshops, 2006. Printed publication in Beyond Mimesis and Convention: Representation in Art and Science, ed. R. Frigg and M. Hunter, Springer Verlag, 2010; German translation in Kunst und Kognition, ed. M. Bauer et al, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2006; brief version: ‘In search of the big picture’, New Scientist, issue 2563, 5 August 2006 (& podcast); Greek translation: Cogito, June 2007; Spanish translation in Neuroestética, ed. Antonio Martín Araguz, 2011.
- ‘Replies to Zed Adams, Malcolm Budd, Will Davies and Paolo Spinicci’, in a symposium on The Objective Eye, in Lebenswelt 2, 2012.
- ‘Realism and relativism in the theory of art’, Proc. of the Aristotelian Society, 2004. 25–53.
Mind and action
- ‘Desires, Dispositions, and Deviant Causal Chains’, Philosophy, 2014. 83–112.
- ‘Voluntariness and choice’, Philosophical Quarterly, 2013. 683–708.
- ‘Pains and places’, Philosophy, 2003. 5–24.
- ‘-ings and -ers’, Ratio Special Issue: Meaning and Representation, December 2001. 298–317.
- ‘Agents and their actions’ (with Maria Alvarez), Philosophy, 1998. 219–245.
Wittgenstein
- ‘Wittgenstein on action and the will’, Grazer Philosophische Studien: Themes From Early Analytic Philosophy: essays in honour of Wolfgang Künne, ed. B. Schneider & M. Schulz, Rodolpi, 2011; repr. in The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, ed. Marie McGinn, OUP, 2011.
- ‘Wittgenstein’, in A Companion to the Philosophy of Religion, second edition, ed. P. Draper & C. Tagliaferro, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.
- ‘The urn and the chamber-pot’, in Wittgenstein, Culture and the Arts, ed. R. Allen, Routledge, 2001; French translation: ‘L’urne et le pot de chambre’ in Revue de synthèse, 2006/1; Italian translation: ‘L’urna e il vaso da notte’ in Wittgenstein, l’estetica e le arti, ed. Elisa Caldarola et al., Carocci, 2013.
- ‘El evangelio segun Wittgenstein’, Revista de Filosofia, 1998. 231–244.