Ian Ground
BA (Hons)
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Location:
North East Centre for Lifelong Learning , Newcastle
Phone: 0191 515 2839 / 2800
Email:
ian.ground@sunderland.ac.uk
Biography
Philosophy
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Sunderland University
Part-Time Lecturer in Philosophy, Newcastle University
British Society of Aesthetics Executive Committee
APIS philosophy Group
Lifelong Learning
Team Leader Explore Programme
Centre for Lifelong Learning, Sunderland University
Subject Area Leader for Philosophy, Music and the Visual Arts
Cultural Strategy Co-ordinator
IT Strategy Manager
Awards
Universities Association of Lifelong Learning Award 2010
Winner of Sunderland's University's inaugural Innovation Challenge, to promote creative teaching June 2007
Newcastle University Noble Prize, 1980
Newcastle University Renwick Travel Prize, 1977
Teaching Areas
Philosophy
Research Interests
Aesthetics, The Philosophy of Mind, Wittgenstein
Selected Publications
BooksPhilosophy for Nursing, Edwin Arnold (1996) co-written with Jan Reed.
Can We Understand Animal Minds? Duckworth (1994) co-written with Michael Bavidge.
Art or Bunk?, Bristol Classical Press (1989).
Edited Books
Lifelong Learning, Equity and Inclusion. Proceedings of the UACE Conference (Cambridge, England, March 29-31, 1999). (editor)
People Or Profit: Social Inclusion Versus Vocational Relevance: Proceedings By Raymond A Thomson, Archibald M Fleming, Ian Ground, UACE, (2001)
Translations
Arte o Chorrada University of Valencia Press (2008) Colección: Estecia & Critica
translated by Salvador Rubio Marco with an introduction to the new edition.
Chapters
Do Animals Need a Theory of Mind? co-written with Michael Bavidge, in Against Theory of Mind (Palgrave Macmillan, March 2009) editors Alan Costall and Ivan Leudar.
Must We Mean What We Play?, Creative Chords: Studies in Music, Theology and Christian Formation By Jeff Astley, Timothy Hone, Mark Savage, Gracewing Publishing (2000)
Articles
A Matter of Priorities
NIACE Adult Learning, May 2009
Reflections al Voltant de l'Art Contemporani
Quaderns de filosofia i ciència, 38, 2008, pp. 79-86
with an introduction in Catalan and Spanish translation by Salvador Rubio Marco
Why Aesthetics Matters English version of above
Love on a Train
Philosophical Writings,1997
Orientations
Philosophical Writings,1997
What You Do Is Determined by What you Do
Health Care Analysis Volume 3 Number 1 February, 1995
If it speaks like a duck...
Argument, Vol. 1 1989
The Lion's Share
The Philosopher, October, 1983 co-written with Michael Bavidge.
Mainstreaming LAE: has it widened participation? co-written with Leni Oglesby and Faith Butt
UAce Annual Conference 1999: Lifelong Learning, Equity and Inclusion, 29-31 March 1999, Churchill College, Cambridge.
Wittgenstein, Art and Silence
Proceedings of the Eighth International Wittgenstein Symposium, Part 1 1983
Reviews
Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts - Kendall L. Walton
Philosophy (forthcoming)
The Measure of Things - Humanism Humility and Mystery - David E. Cooper
Philosophy Volume 83, Issue 03, July 2008, pp 399-403
Aesthetic Life -The Past and Present of Artistic Culture - Harry Redner
British Journal of Aesthetics, January 2008; 48: 107 - 110.
Aesthetics and Photography - Jonathan Friday
October 2005; 45: 448 - 450.
Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental Aesthetics - Arnold Berleant (Editor)
British Journal of Aesthetics, Jul 2004; 44: 311 - 313.
Electronic Pathways - adult learning and the new communication technologies Jane Field (Editor)
International Journal of Lifelong Education, Volume 17, Issue 5 September 1998, pp 352 - 355
"The British Art Show", RAFT, 1996
The Ethics and Politics of Human Experimentation, Paul M. McNeill, Health Care Analysis, Volume 2, Number 2 / June, 1994
Philosophy in Britain Today, S.G. Shankar, Ethics
The Quality of Life, edited by Martha Nussbaum & Amartya Sen, Health Care Analysis Volume 1, Number 2 / November, 1993
Bioethics in a Liberal Society, Max Charlesworth, Health Care Analysis Volume 3, Number 1 / February, 1995
