Dr. Ryan Wittingslow
I am an associate professor at the University of Groningen and a research affiliate of the University of Sydney. From September 2022 to February 2024, I was a Humboldt research fellow at TU Darmstadt. I am the author of the monograph What Art Does (Rowman & Littlefield 2023) and the editor-in-chief of the Philosophy of the City Journal. Most of my research sits at the fertile delta connecting aesthetics, philosophy of design, philosophy of technology, and political philosophy. I write a lot about cities. I also have devastating opinions about art.
2024
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2024). Building Perfectionist Ethics into
Action-theoretic Accounts of Function: A Beginner’s
Guide. Philosophy & Technology,
37(1), Article 28. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00711-5
Wittingslow,
R. M. (Accepted/In press). How to Do Things with
Artifacts. In C. Didier, A. Béranger, A. Bouzin, H.
Paris, & J. Supiot (Eds.), Engineering and Value
Change (Philosophy of Engineering and Technology).
Springer.
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2024). Properness and Pluralism in Functional
Beauty. Contemporary Aesthetics,
22.
de
Ruiter, N., Wittingslow, R., & Chiu,
R. (Eds.) (2024). Strange Bedfellows: An
Experiment in Student-directed Interdisciplinary
Research. University of Groningen Press. https://doi.org/10.21827/6399d913c9fa9
2023
Wittingslow,
R. (2024). Critical Contextual Aestheticism: A
Proposal. Debates in Aesthetics,
19(1).
Wittingslow,
R. M., & Miller, C. (2023).
Defining 'Public Space' for Philosophers of the
City. Paper presented at Philosophy of the City
conference 2023, New York, United States.
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2023). Designed Things, Technical
Functions, and Speech Act Theory. Paper presented at
2023 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology, Delft,
Netherlands.
Wittingslow,
R. M., Miller, C., & Counihan,
M. (2023). Fieldwork for Philosophers.
Paper presented at Philosophy of the City conference 2023, New
York, United States.
Wittingslow,
R. (2023). On the Use of Linguistic Concepts in
Design. Technology and Language,
4(2), 145-156. https://doi.org/10.48417/technolang.2023.02.13
2022
de
Ruiter, N., Wittingslow, R., & Chiu,
R. (2024). Introduction: Making Strange. In N.
de Ruiter, R. Wittingslow, & R. Chiu (Eds.), Strange
Bedfellows: An Experiment in Student-directed Interdisciplinary
Research (pp. 9-19). University of Groningen Press.
Wittingslow,
R., & Lehtinen, S. (2024). The Use of Light
Installations in Architectural Reconstruction: New Technological
Solutions for the Public Sphere. In Z. Somhegyi, & L.
Giombini (Eds.), Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of
Architectural Reconstruction (1st ed., pp. 150-162).
Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003334200-14
Wittingslow,
R., Lehtinen, S., Counihan, M., Lobo, T., &
Stone, T. (Eds.) (2023). Inaugural Issue: Philosophies of the
City. Philosophy of the City Journal,
1(1).
Nagenborg,
M., Lehtinen, S., & Wittingslow, R. (2022).
Design Ethics: An Invitation. Paper presented
at Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference 2022,
Copenhagen, Denmark.
Wittingslow,
R. (2022). How to Build a Common
World. Paper presented at Philosophy of the City Annual
Conference 2022, Turin, Italy.
Lehtinen,
S., & Wittingslow, R. (2022). Preserving
the Pluralistic Ethos of Public Space with Technological
Solutions. Paper presented at Philosophy of
Human-Technology Relations Conference 2022, Copenhagen,
Denmark.
2021
Wittingslow,
R. (2022). Philosophy of Technology & Aesthetic
Cognitivism. In A. Friedrich, P. Gehring, C. Hubig, A.
Kaminski, & A. Nordmann (Eds.), Kunst und Werk
(Jahrbuch Technikphilosophie; Vol. 8). Nomos.
May,
C. J., Wittingslow, R., & Blandhol, M.
(2022). Provoking Thought: A Predictive Processing Account of
Critical Thinking and the Effects of Education.
Educational philosophy and theory,
54(14), 2458-2468. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2021.2006056
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Artworks and Their
Affordances. Paper presented at The Society for
Philosophy and Technology Conference, Lille, France.
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Authenticity and the 'Authentic
City'. In M. Nagenborg, T. Stone, M. Gonzalez Woge, & P.
Vermaas (Eds.), Technology and the City: Towards a Philosophy
of Urban Technologies (pp. 253-270). (Philosophy of
Engineering and Technology; Vol. 36). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52313-8_13
Wittingslow,
R., & Lewis, F. (2021). Critical
Theory of Technology and Democracy in the Smart City.
Paper presented at RC21 Conference on Sensing and Shaping the City,
Antwerp, Belgium.
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). The COVID-19 Pandemic qua Artefact: A
Conceptual Analysis. Techné: Research in
Philosophy and Technology, 25(2). http://www.spt.org/the-covid-19-pandemic-qua-artefact-a-conceptual-analysis/
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk
about Art. Proceedings of the European Society of
Aesthetics, 13, 189-200.
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk
About Art. Paper presented at Conference of the
European Society for Aesthetics.
2020
Wittingslow,
R. (2023). What Art Does: Using Philosophy of
Technology to Talk About Art. (Global Aesthetic
Research). Rowman and Littlefield International.
Wittingslow,
R. (2022). Who Controls the Smart City? From Machines
of Loving Grace to a Democratic Transformation from Below.
In D. Cressman (Ed.), The Necessity of Critique: Andrew
Feenberg's Philosophy of Technology (pp. 107-124). (Philosophy
of Engineering and Technology; Vol. 41). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07877-4_6
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Intention & Agency in
Photography. In V. Vinogradovs (Ed.), Aesthetic
Literacy: A Book for Everyone (Vol. 2). Mont Publishing.
Ioannou,
M., Boot, M., Wittingslow,
R., & Mattos, A. (2021). Patriotism
and Nationalism as Two Distinct Ways of Loving One's
Country. In S. Cushing (Ed.), New Philosophical Essays
on Love and Loving Palgrave MacMillan.
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Review of Assassins Against the Old Order:
Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin de Siècle Europe.
Journal for the Study of Radicalism,
15(1).
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). The Play’s das Thing: On the
Incommensurability of Arendtian Political Action and the Kantian
Sublime. Journal of Comparative Literature and
Aesthetics, 44(1).
Wittingslow,
R. (2021). Traces & Testimonies. In V.
Vinogradovs (Ed.), Aesthetic Literacy: A Book for Everyone
(Vol. 1). Mont Publishing.
Wittingslow,
R. (2020). All Watched Over by Machines of Loving
Grace. Paper presented at Philosophy of
Human-Technology Relations Conference 2020, Enschede,
Netherlands.
Wittingslow,
R. (2020). Authenticity and the 'Authentic
City'. Paper presented at Philosophy of
Human-Technology Relations Conference 2020, Enschede,
Netherlands.
Wittingslow,
R. (2020). Review of Hegel’s Aesthetics: The Art
of Idealism. Journal of Comparative Literature and
Aesthetics, 43(1), 179-182. http://jcla.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/JCLA-43.1-2020_Review-3-Ryan-Mitchell.pdf
Wittingslow,
R. (2020). Some Thoughts on the Relationship Between
Scientism and Empirical Methods in Philosophy. The
Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective,
9(5), 64-67. https://social-epistemology.com/2020/05/21/some-thoughts-on-the-relationship-between-scientism-and-empirical-methods-in-philosophy-ryan-mitchell-wittingslow/
2019
Wittingslow,
R. (2024). A Holy Dullness: Tarkovsky, Suture, and the
Numinous. In C. Cusack, & V. Robertson (Eds.), Brill
Handbook of Contemporary Religion, Film and Television
Brill.
Wittingslow,
R. (2020). Visions of Political Form: Kantian Free
Play and Urban Space. Contemporary
Aesthetics, 8. https://contempaesthetics.org/2020/07/16/visions-of-political-form-kantian-free-play-and-urban-space/
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2019). From Beauty to Utopia: Kantian
Aesthetics and the Politics of Space. Paper presented
at Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium 2019: Urban Aesthetics,
Helsinki, Finland.
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2019). Teaching for Lasting Impact: What if
Learning Outcomes Could Only be Assessed Years in the
Future?. Paper presented at UC Tilburg Lustrum
Conference on Dilemmas in Higher Education, Tilburg,
Netherlands.
2018
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2020). Effing the Ineffable: The Sublime in
Postphenomenology. Techné: Research in
Philosophy and Technology, 24(3), 282-305. https://doi.org/10.5840/techne202082127
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2018). All Watched Over by Machines of
Loving Grace. Paper presented at 2018 OZSW Conference,
Twente, Netherlands.
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2018). Authenticity and the 'Authentic
City'. Paper presented at Philosophy of the City Summer
Colloquium 2018: Urban Technologies, Twente, Netherlands.
2017
May,
C., & Wittingslow, R. (2018).
Cultivating Standards of Taste: "Aisthesis" in Liberal Arts
and Science Pedagogy. Configurations,
26(3), 317-322. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2018.0028
2016
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2016). Bloody-Minded Metaphysics: Barry Allen
vs. The World. Contemporary
Pragmatism, 13(2). https://doi.org/10.1163/18758185-01302001
2015
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2015). All Men Must Serve: Religion and Free
Will from the Seven to the Faceless Men. In S. Johnston,
& J. Battis (Eds.), Mastering the Game of Thrones: Essays
on George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire
McFarland.
Wittingslow,
R. (2015). Review of Doing Emotions History.
Philament: an online journal of literature, arts and
culture , 20(1), 183-185. http://www.philamentjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/20_COMPLETE_ISSUE_150204.pdf
Wittingslow,
R. (2015). With HoloLens, the Future of Reality is
Augmented. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/with-hololens-the-future-of-reality-is-augmented-37104
2014
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2014). Machines for Living: Philosophy of
Technology and the Photographic Image. [Thesis fully
external, Univ Sydney, University of Sydney]. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/11854
2013
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2013). Enhancement and Human Nature.
International Journal of Design and Innovation
Research, 7(1).
2012
Wittingslow,
R. (2012). Augmentation Technologies are Here, but Are
People Listening? The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/augmentation-technologies-are-here-but-are-people-listening-8135
Wittingslow,
R. (2012). Outsourcing Memory: The Internet has
Changed How We Remember. The
Conversation. https://theconversation.com/outsourcing-memory-the-internet-has-changed-how-we-remember-10871
Wittingslow,
R. (2012). Vampires and Wind Farms: Mass Hysteria Can
Be a Pain in the Neck. The
Conversation. https://theconversation.com/vampires-and-wind-farms-mass-hysteria-can-be-a-pain-in-the-neck-11122
Wittingslow,
R. M. (2012). What Does it Mean to be Enhanced?
In Proceedings of the 2012 Virtual Reality International
Conference (pp. 81-89). ACM Press.
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