William Day

B.A., St. John's College; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Columbia University.

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.

Recent publications

• “Words Fail Me. (Stanley Cavell's Life out of Music).” In Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Edited by David LaRocca. Bloomsbury, 2020, 187-97.
• “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.
• “The Ecstasy of Time Travel in Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams.” In The Philosophy of Documentary Film: Image, Sound, Fiction, Truth. Edited by David LaRocca. Philosophy of Popular Culture. Lexington Books of Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, 209-24.

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