William Day, Ph.D.
- Professor Philosophy
William Day writes primarily on Wittgenstein, Cavell, and topics in aesthetics (improvisation, music, film). He is contributing co-editor (with Victor J. Krebs) of a volume on Wittgenstein’s aspect-seeing remarks, Seeing Wittgenstein Anew (Cambridge UP). Other publications include articles and book chapters on Emerson, the Neo-Confucian thinker Wang Yangming, and moral perfectionism. He teaches courses in the philosophy of art, American philosophy, theory of knowledge, the philosophy of language, and the experience of time.
Education
B.A., St. John’s College
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University
Publications
- “Impressions of Meaning in Cavell’s Life out of Music.” In Music with Stanley Cavell in Mind. Edited by David LaRocca. Bloomsbury, 2024, 53-81.
- “Hearing Between the Lines: Impressions of Meaning and Jazz’s Democratic Esotericism.” Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies 11.1 (December 2023): 75-88.
- “Art and Baseball, Like and Unlike.” Review of Serious Larks: The Philosophy of Ted Cohen, edited by Daniel Herwitz. American Book Review 40, no. 5 (2019): 12-13.
- “The Aesthetic Dimension of Wittgenstein’s Later Writings.” In Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding. Edited by Garry L. Hagberg. Philosophers in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 3-29.
