Paul Crowther is from Leeds in northern England, and grew up in the Belle Isle estate and Middleton areas of that city. He did his BA in Philosophy and the History of Art at Leeds University, and an MA in Philosophy at the University of York. He took a Cert. Ed in Classical Studies at Cambridge, and was awarded a D.Phil on Kant's theory of the sublime by the sub-Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He taught Art History at the University of St. Andrews for many years, and then at Oxford, where he was an Official Fellow of Corpus Christi College. After holding a Chair in Philosophy at the Centre for Professional Ethics in the University of Central Lancashire, he taught in Germany as Professor of Philosophy and the Visual Arts at Jacobs University Bremen. He took up the established Chair in Philosophy at NUI, Galway in 2009.

Books
Phenomenologies of Art and Vision: A Post-Analytic Turn Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy; London and New York, 2013

The Phenomenology of Modern Art: Exploding Deleuze, Illuminating Style,Continuum, London and New York, 2012

The Kantian Aesthetic: From Knowledge to the Avant-Garde, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2010

Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame), Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2009

Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt,Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2007

Philosophy After Postmodernism; Civilized Values and the Scope of Knowledge, Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, London, 2003

The Transhistorical Image: Philosophizing Art and its History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002

Edited Works
Meanings of Abstract Art: Between Nature and Theory, co-edited with Isabel Wunsche,Routledge Advances in Visual Studies, 2012
Aesthetics, Imagination, and the Unity of Consciousness by R.K. Elliott; edited and introduced by Paul Crowther Ashgate, 2006

Articles
‘Imagination, Language, and the Perceptual World: A Post-Analytic Phenomenology', Continental Philosophy Review (forthcoming)
‘A Rediscovered Contemporary Full-Length Sketch-Portrait of Schopenhauer by Frederic, Lord Leighton’ (with M.Cuzman) Schopenhauer-Jahrbuch, 92 Band, 2011, pp. 301-306
‘Post-Analytic Phenomenology of Painting: Merleau-Ponty and Beyond’ Aesthetic Pathways, Vol.1 No.1, 2010, pp.79-98
‘Cultural Exclusion, Normativity, and the Definition of Art’ (originally published in 2003) - anthologized in Czech translation in ' Co Je Umeny? Texty angloamericke estetiky 20 stoleti.' [What is Art? Texts in Twentieth-Century Angloamerican Aesthetics] ed. D. Ciprianov and T. Kulka,Edice Estetika, Karlovy Vary, 2010

My main research interests are in the philosophies of visual art and art history, Kant and Hegel's aesthetics,and dialectical logic and metaphysics. I'd be happy to supervise postgraduate work in these areas, and in aesthetics generally.

I am presently curating 'Enabling Beauty' - a major exhibition of Victorian drawings and paintings which will be held at the National Gallery of Slovenia, Ljubljana, from September 2014 to January 2015. His further international commitments include extensive work with a network of scholars who specialize in abstract art; and a programme of on-site visual studies in Europe and north America for a work-in-progress on the phenomenology of architecture.