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Jon Robson

Assistant Professor, Faculty of Arts

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Biography

Jon started at Nottingham in 2010 and is currently Senior Tutor in Philosophy and TRS.

Teaching Summary

This year Jon is teaching a second year module in the philosophy of art and a third year module in environmental ethics.

In the past Jon has taught a wide variety of modules in most of the central areas of analytic philosophy. He is also experienced in teaching professional ethics to students from non-philosophy backgrounds.

Research Summary

Jon's current research focuses primarily on the epistemology of aesthetic (and more broadly normative) judgements and, in particular, on the debate over the nature and value of aesthetic testimony.… read more

Recent Publications

Current Research

Jon's current research focuses primarily on the epistemology of aesthetic (and more broadly normative) judgements and, in particular, on the debate over the nature and value of aesthetic testimony. He has also published on a range of other topics including the philosophy of comics and videogames, the evil of death, the relationship of God to possible worlds, and the metaphysics of composition.

Jon has research interests in aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion.

Past Research

Jon was previously employed as AHRC postdoctoral fellow for the project 'Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the challenge from the sciences'. His PhD thesis examined the ethical implications of metaphysical theories of time and modality.

  • GREG CURRIE and JON ROBSON, 2023. Authenticity and Implicature Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 81(3), 387-91
  • JON ROBSON, 2023. On the Ontology of Screens and Screen Creatures Constructivist Foundations. 18(3), 399-400
  • JON ROBSON, 2022. Aesthetic Testimony: an Optimistic Approach Oxford University Press.
  • JON ROBSON and NEIL SINCLAIR, 2022. Speculative Aesthetic Expressivism British Journal Aesthetics.
  • JON ROBSON and GREG CURRIE, 2022. Aesthetics and Cognitive Science Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • ZACH HOSKINS and JON ROBSON, eds., 2021. The Social Epistemology of Legal Trials Routledge.
  • SARAH ADAMS and JON ROBSON, 2020. Analyzing Aseity Canadian Journal of Philosophy. 50(2),
  • MARCUS LEE, NEIL SINCLAIR and JON ROBSON, 2020. Moral Testimony as Higher-Order Evidence. In: Higher-Order Evidence and Moral Epistemology Routledge.
  • JON ROBSON, 2019. 'Aesthetic Testimony and the Test of Time' Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 96(3),
  • JON ROBSON, 2018. ‘The Beautiful Gamer?’. In: JON ROBSON and GRANT TAVINOR, eds., The Aesthetics of Videogames Routledge.
  • AARON MESKIN, JON ROBSON, KRIS GOFFIN, ANNA ICHINO and ANNELIES MONSERÉ, 2018. ‘Cognitive Science and Aesthetics.’ WIREs Cognitive Science. 9(1),
  • JON ROBSON and GRANT TAVINOR, eds., 2018. The Aesthetics of Videogames Routledge.
  • JON ROBSON, 2018. 'Is Perception the Canonical Route to Aesthetic Judgement' Australasian Journal Philosophy. 96(4),
  • JON ROBSON, 2018. 'Omni-beauty as a Divine Attribute' Religious Studies. 55(1),
  • JON ROBSON and AARON MESKIN, 2018. Videogames. In: NOËL CARROLL, LAURA T. DI SUMMA-KNOOP and SHAWN LOHT, eds., Videogames The Palgrave Handbook for the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures. Palgrave.
  • CARL BAKER and JON ROBSON, 2017. 'An Absolutist Theory of Faultless Disagreement in Aesthetics.' Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 98(3), 429-48
  • JON ROBSON and AARON MESKIN, 2017. 'Still Self-Involved: a Reply to Patridge' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 75(2), 184-7
  • JON ROBSON, 2017. ‘Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism.’. In: E. SULLIVAN-BISSETT, H. BRADLEY and P. NOORDHOF, eds., Art and the Nature of Belief.
  • GEORGE DARBY, MARTIN PICKUP and JON ROBSON, 2017. In: O. BUENO, G. DARBY, S. FRENCH and D. RICKLES, eds., Thinking about Science, Reflecting on Art. Routledge. 99-118
  • JON ROBSON, 2016. 'Comics and Ethics.'. In: FRANK BRAMLETT, ROY T. COOK and AARON MESKIN, eds., Routledge Companion to Comics Routledge. 311-8
  • BEN CURTIS and JON ROBSON, 2016. A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time Bloomsbury.
  • SARAH ADAMS and JON ROBSON, 2016. 'Does Absence Make Atheistic Belief Grow Stronger?' International Journal of Philosophy of Religion. 79(1), 49-68
  • JON ROBSON and AARON MESKIN, 2016. 'Videogames as Self-Referential Interactive Fictions' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 72(2), 165-77
  • AARON MESKIN and JON ROBSON, 2015. 'Taste and Acquaintance.' Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 73(2), 127-139
  • JON ROBSON, 2015. 'A-time to Die: a Growing Block Account of the Evil of Death.' Philosophia. 42(4), 911-925
  • JON ROBSON, 2015. 'Norms of Belief and Norms of Assertion in Aesthetics.' Philosophers' Imprint. 16(5), 1-19
  • JON ROBSON, 2015. 'Religious Fictionalism and the Problem of Evil.' Religious Studies. 51(3), 353-60
  • GREGORY CURRIE, MATTHEW KIERAN, AARON MESKIN and JON ROBSON, eds., 2014. Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind Oxford University Press.
  • JON ROBSON, 2014. 'Aesthetic Testimony and the Norms of Belief Formation.' European Journal of Philosophy.
  • JON ROBSON, 2014. Aesthetic Autonomy and Self-aggrandisement. In: GREGORY CURRIE, MATTHEW KIERAN, AARON MESKIN and MARGARET MOORE, eds., 'Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sciences of Art?' Cambridge University Press. 3-28
  • JON ROBSON, 2014. ‘Heidegger and Analytic Philosophy: Together at Last?’ International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 22(3), 482-487
  • JON ROBSON, 2013. 'Appreciating the Acquaintance Principle: a reply to Konigsberg.' British Journal of Aesthetics. 53(2), 237-45
  • AARON MESKIN and JON ROBSON, 2012. 'Fiction and Fictional Worlds in Videogames.'. In: JOHN RICHARD SAGENG and TARJEI MANDT, eds., The Philosophy of Computer Games Springer. 201-218
  • JON ROBSON, 2012. 'Aesthetic Testimony.' Philosophy Compass. 7(1), 1-10
  • JON ROBSON and AARON MESKIN, 2012. 'Videogames and the First Person.'. In: GREGORY CURRIE, PETR KOTAKO and MARTIN POKORNY, eds., Mimesis: Metaphysics, Cognition, Pragmatics College Publications.
  • AARON MESKIN and JON ROBSON, 2010. 'Videogames and the Moving Image.' Revue Internationale de Philosophie. 64(4), 547-564
  • NIKK EFFINGHAM and JON ROBSON, 2007. 'A Mereological Challenge to Endurantism.' Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 85(4), 633-640
  • REBECCA WALLBANK and JON ROBSON, Over-Appreciating Appreciation. In: JEREMY WYATT, JULIA ZAKKOU and DAN ZEMAN, eds., Perspectives on Taste Routledge.

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