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Director of the Core Program

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

• "." Conversations: The Journal of Cavellian Studies 11.1 (December 2023): 75-88.
• “.” In Inheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Edited by David LaRocca. Bloomsbury, 2020, 187-97.
• Review of Serious Larks: The Philosophy of Ted Cohen, edited by Daniel Herwitz. American Book Review 40, no. 5 (2019): 12-13.
• In Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Understanding. Edited by Garry L. Hagberg. Philosophers in Depth. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 3-29.

William Day's CV

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