Dr. Ryan Wittingslow

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsPractical Philosophy,History of Science
Keywordsphilosophy of design, philosophy of technology, aesthetics, epistemology, technical images

Current contact address

CountryNetherlands
CityGroningen
InstitutionUniversity of Groningen
InstituteUniversity College Groningen

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Alfred NordmannInstitut für Philosophie, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Darmstadt
Start of initial sponsorship01/09/2022

Programme(s)

2022Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2027Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: By Design: How Objects Succeed and Fail. Bloomsbury, 2027
2025Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: Finding Function: Exaptation, Maintenance, and Exemplification. In: Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology, 2025,
2025Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: How to Do Things With Artifacts. Engineering and Value Change. Springer, 2025.
2024Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: Building Perfectionist Ethics into Action-theoretic Accounts of Function. In: Philosophy and Technology, 37, 2024,
2024Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: Critical Contextual Aestheticism: A Proposal. In: Debates in Aesthetics, 19, 2024,
2024Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: Properness and Pluralism in Functional Beauty. In: Contemporary Aesthetics, 22, 2024,
2023Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: On the Use of Linguistic Concepts in Design. In: Technology and Language, 4, 2023,
2023Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow: What Art Does: Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk About Art. Rowman & Littlefield, 2023