Christopher Williams

Christopher Williams serves as Associate Dean and Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nevada, Reno. His scholarship focuses on philosophical aesthetics, 18th-19th century philosophy (especially Hume), and R.G. Collingwood's theory of art. He authored A Cultivated Reason: An Essay on Hume and Humeanism and co-edited Persons and Passions: Essays in Honor of Annette Baier.

Teaching areas span:

• Aesthetic theory and art philosophy
• Historical development of modern philosophy
• Ethical frameworks in Hume and contemporaries

He was a Fellow at Cornell's Society for the Humanities and continues to investigate Collingwood's contributions to art philosophy.