Michael Campbell
Assistant Professor, Kyoto University
From 2022-2025 I am the principal investigator of a JSPS funded project entitled Wittgenstein and Gestalt Psychology: Therapeutic Insights.
The goal of this project is to investigate Wittgenstein's relation to the school of Gestalt Psychology considered as a whole, and to consider whether insights from this comparison might help inform frameworks for recovery from injurious experience.
I am co-editor, with Michael O'Sullivan, of Wittgenstein and Perception (Routledge, 2015). The volume has been reviewed by Avner Baz for NDPR.
With Ethan Sahker I am investigating the theoretical foundations of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and comparing the CBT account of the mind to that of the Gestalt psychologists. In January 2023 we hosted an online symposium on this topic.
In Wittgenstein exegesis, I have written on the question of how we are to interpret Wittgenstein's theories of perception in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the Philosophical Investigations.
Selected Publications
From Rule Following to Productive Thinking: Reading the Philosophical Investigations in the Light of Gestalt Psychology Philosophia Scientae 2022 26.3: 37-60
Calling Solomon's Bluff: Ethics, Aspect-Perception and the Unity of the Tractatus Philosophical Investigations 2020 43.3: 223-253
Wittgenstein on Perception: an Overview (with Michael O'Sullivan) in Campbell and O'Sullivan (Eds) Wittgenstein and Perception Routledge, 2015
