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Alberto Parisi is Specially Appointed Assistant Professor at the Kobe Institute for Atmospheric Studies (KOIAS) of Kobe University, Japan. He received his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University (2023) and a BA in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick (2017). His research lies at the intersection of Comparative Literature, Philosophy, and Environmental Humanities, with a focus on breath, voice, air, and atmosphere as concepts that bridge materiality and meaning across traditions. His forthcoming book The Intention of the Spirit: From Intention to Atmosphere (Routledge, 2026) offers the first genealogy of intention as a material and respiratory concept, tracing its transformation from ancient Stoic pneumatology to modern European poetics and contemporary philosophy.
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Phil Gaydon completed his undergrad, MA and PhD at Warwick between 2007 and 2018. His thesis focused on children’s literature and a virtue epistemology approach to education.While at Warwick he also created and taught modules on the philosophy of sport, the imagination and the ethical development of children for the IATL, won the WATE-PGR award twice, worked in primary and secondary schools around the country as a Philosophy Specialist for The Philosophy Foundation, and coached women’s American football at university and international level. He currently teaches PSHE, Religious Studies and Philosophy at St Paul’s School in London, and is the school’s Head of Character Education.
Ole Martin Skilleås, born 1962 in Namsos, studied at the University of Trondheim (Cand.Phil. 1988) and got his PhD at Warwick in 1992. Since 1994 he has worked in the departments of English and Philosophy at The University of Bergen, Norway, and was made Professor of Philosophy from 2001. He has written Philosophy and Literature (Edinburgh UP 2001), The Aesthetics of Wine (w. Douglas Burnhan, another Warwick alumn) (Wiley-Blackwell 2012) and Aesthetic Expertise (Lexington Books 2024). He has been an active politician, but now spends his spare time on tennis and wine – but at separate points in time.
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Martin Warner: I studied PPE at Oxford, and also the Dip Ed, and then for my BPhil under Gilbert Ryle, Alasdair MacIntyre, G E L Owen and others. After a few years as a member of the Philosophy Department at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, I was invited to apply to the University of Warwick for the new philosophy lectureship associated with the envisaged integrated undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Literature. I joined the Department in 1969 and stayed until I retired in 2005. In 1985 we set up the Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature (later developing into the CRPLA) in association with a bespoke Phil/Lit MA (and subsequently PhD), a book series (Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature), and a series of international conferences, I being its first Programme Director. I was the Department’s Director of Graduate Studies from 1992-1996, and Chair of its Philosophy and Ethics of Mental Health Steering Group from 1998-2005. I was a founding member of the Society for Applied Philosophy (serving on its Executive Committee from its foundation in 1982 until well into the 1990s), a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for the journalPhilosophy and Literature during the same period, and of the ‘Teaching Philosophy’ Committee of theFédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie through the 1990s until my retirement. I was a member of the Executive Committee of the Royal Institute of Philosophy from 1982-2005, continuing thereafter as a member of its Council until 2016; as part of my responsibilities, I was a member of the National Policy Committee for the 1988 World Congress of Philosophy, and also organized a series of conferences at Warwick for school teachers on different aspects of philosophy and its relationships with other disciplines.
In 1984 ‘Freddie’ (Sir Alfred) Ayer, ‘Griff’ (Warwick’s founding philosophy professor), and I produced an experimental series of video tapes onEthics and Religion (I producing the analytical handbook), while in 1999 a colleague in the USA and I started a book series, now published by Routledge,Transcending Boundaries in Philosophy and Theology, which now runs to over twenty volumes. I have published three monographs,Philosophical Finesse (1989),A Philosophical Study of T S Eliot’s FOUR QUARTETS (1999), andThe Aesthetics of Argument (2016), together with six edited or co-edited volumes and various articles and reviews. For twenty years or so I was also a church bell ringer.
