Hampshire College

Jonathan Westphal, visiting professor of philosophy, received his B.A. from Harvard College, M.A. from the University of Sussex, and Ph.D. from the University of London. He has taught at the University of Hawaii, the University of London, Idaho State University, and at other colleges and universities in the U.K. and the U.S. He was an Alexander von Humbolt Fellow at the University of Munich, and is a Permanent Member of the Senior Common Room at University College, Oxford.

He has written a book on the philosophy of colour (Colour: a Philosophical Introduction, Blackwell, Oxford, 1991, 2nd ed,) and a number of articles on time, the latest one on the concept of the future.

His deepest loves are colour and composition in painting, and the meaning in words in poetry. He has strong research interests in philosophy of mind, and his most recent publication in the area is ‘”My Body," “my X” and “I”', American Philosophical Quarterly, 3 (2008), and also in diagrammatic and visual logics, “Logic as a Vector System," Journal of Logic and Computation, 3 (2005).

Affiliations
School of Cognitive Science

Recent Courses
CS-0114: Introduction to Philosophy (Fall 2013)
CS-0202: Philosophy of Mind (Fall 2013)
CS-0108: Introduction to Philosophy (Spring 2013)
CS-0265: Problems of Analytic Metaphysics (Spring 2013)