Philosophy

Andrew McGonigal

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Andrew McGonigal joined the Department in 2002, after graduate work in Glasgow.

He currently acts as deputy director of the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, and secretary for the British Society for Ethical Theory.

He was a visiting professor at Cornell University in spring 2007. Recently areas of research interest include topics in metaphysics and aesthetics.

Aesthetics: metaphor, the autonomy of aesthetic judgement, aesthetic value
Philosophy of Language: metaphor, the rule-following considerations, vagueness
Metaethics: ideal observer theories, response-dependence, thick concepts, moral community
Philosophy of Mind: non-conceptual content, inexpressible experiential states, externalism
Metaphysics: realism, essence, methodology of metaphysics

'The Many Minds Account of Vagueness' Philosophical Studies 138 (April, 2008), 435-40 (with John Hawthorne)
'Metaphor, Indeterminacy and Intention', British Journal of Aesthetics 42 (2002)
'Moral Facts and Suitably Informed Subjects', Ratio 18 (2005)
'The Autonomy of Aesthetic Judgement', The British Journal of Aesthetics (forthcoming, October 2006)