I am Professor of Aesthetics at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, UK. I moved to Cardiff in 1996 from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. I studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1984-87), and it was the questions I encountered there concerning the nature of representation in drawing that led me to Philosophy. An MA in Philosophy at Cardiff University allowed me to locate these questions in Kant’s theory of knowledge (1989-90), and prepared the ground for my PhD study – at the Technische Universität, Berlin (1992), and at Cardiff University (1990-95) – on how theories of metaphor in art and science can be inf…
I am Professor of Aesthetics at Cardiff School of Art and Design, Wales, UK. I moved to Cardiff in 1996 from Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. I studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London (1984-87), and it was the questions I encountered there concerning the nature of representation in drawing that led me to Philosophy. An MA in Philosophy at Cardiff University allowed me to locate these questions in Kant’s theory of knowledge (1989-90), and prepared the ground for my PhD study – at the Technische Universität, Berlin (1992), and at Cardiff University (1990-95) – on how theories of metaphor in art and science can be informed by Kantian philosophy. With an education spanning art and philosophy, I enjoy being a philosopher in an art school, especially the epistemological questions thrown up by fine art research. I work in three areas: (1) metaphor in aesthetics and the theory of knowledge; (2) the relation between art and knowledge, and between art and science; and (3) ecological aesthetics and listening as responses to dualistic subject–object thought.
