John Hyman, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Aesthetics and Senior Tutor at The Queen’s College, University of Oxford. Between 1984 and 1988 Dr. Hyman held a North Senior Scholarship at St. John's College, Oxford, a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and a Junior Research Fellowship at Trinity College, Oxford. Since 1988 he has been a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford and a member of the Philosophy Faculty. In 2001-2002 he was a Getty Scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles. In 2002-2003 he was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He was Chairman of the Philosophy Faculty in Oxford and a member of the Humanities Divisional Board from 2003-2005.

Dr. Hyman’s research interests are in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and action, aesthetics and philosophy of art, and Wittgenstein. He has published numerous articles in philosophy journals on these topics and is currently editor of The British Journal of Aesthetics. His most recent book, The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art (University of Chicago Press, 2006) is the first book-length study of pictorial art by an analytical philosopher which is equally accessible to philosophers and historians of art. He is also the co-editor of Agency and Action (Cambridge University Press, 2004) with Helen Steward, and the soon to be published Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P. M. S. Hacker (Oxford University Press), with Hans-Johann Glock