Professor Arthur Gibson

He has acted as Director of Studies in Philosophy for several Cambridge University Colleges, was University Proctor, lecturer, a visiting fellow the Law Faculty’s Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, has been chair, member of or adviser to various Cambridge Senate committees, as well as a number of EU and USA intergovernmental enterprises.

He has been guest philosopher at such universities as Columbia, Helsinki, NYU, and the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and was for some years Chair of Philosophy at Roehampton University.

In Cambridge he is editing for publication the recently discovered Wittgenstein archive of Francis Skinner in Trinity College – the subject that he will address in his talk on 12^th February.

Professor Gibson’s books include:

What is Literature? (Lang 2007),

Metaphysics and Transcendence (Routledge 2003), Text and Tablet (Ashgate 2000),

God and the Universe (Routledge 2000),

and his forthcoming edition of the archive by Wittgenstein,

Dictating Philosophy,

and various chapters, for example his forthcoming: “The Wittgenstein Archive of Francis Skinner”, Wittgenstein after his Nachlass (Palgrave Macmillan, May 2010; ed. N. Venturinha’ chapter 4: 64-77)