Professor
School of Philosophy
University of Southern California
3709 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California 90089-0451
Email: gmwilson at usc dot edu
Phone: 213 821 4116
Office: Stonier 113
Current CV in Word format
Interests: Aesthetics (especially Film Aesthetics), Theory of Action, Wittgenstein, Philosophy of Language
In Film Aesthetics, I have been especially interested in how we should understand what it is that is most distinctive and important about the audio/visual narration of stories in the cinema. I have also done a fair amount of interpretive work on individual movies, and I am concerned with the functions and strategies of responsible interpretation in Film Studies. In the Theory of Action, I have written on the nature of intentional action, the special character of reason explanations of action, and the basis of the direct and normally authoritative knowledge that we have our own actions. My work on Wittgenstein has chiefly dealt with 'the rule-following considerations' and, more specifically, with Kripke's famous reconstruction of them.
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