Daniel Wilson Email & Phone Number

Auckland, NZ

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Coordinator for Tuākana Programme in the School of Computer Science.

Auckland, New Zealand

Tutored and guest lectured for two papers: INFOSYS 722 - Big Data and Data Mining and COMMS 208 - Digital Communications Ethics at The University of Auckland. Currently conducting research on AI ethics (see attached lecture).

Auckland, New Zealand

I developed and presented a 6-session short-course on critical thinking. Topics covered include: the structure of an argument; deductive and non-deductive arguments; analysing and evaluating arguments; critical thinking tools; basic logic; fallacies of reasoning; different kinds of arguments (e.g., arguments by analogy and arguments using statistics). I.

Auckland, New Zealand

Teaching the Philosophy of Mind to second- and third-year students (PHIL 200/320) in semester 1, 2018.

Auckland, New Zealand

Lectured and tutored a third-year undergraduate course in philosophy (epistemology).

Auckland, New Zealand

Philosophy Tutor for Introductory Logic

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

PhD in Philosophy: “Artistic Value and Art’s Definition.” I develop a method for analysing some social concepts, like art, that I label the behavioural competence approach. I construct a theory of artistic appreciation and investigate how functions are attributed to artefacts. I then argue for a functionalist definition of art: artworks are artefacts that.

Auckland, New Zealand

Lectured and tutored Greek Philosophy (PHIL204) during Summer School 2015.

Auckland, New Zealand

Development and support for various projects for Airport 20/20 at Gentrack Ltd. (on a fixed-term contract basis).

Auckland, New Zealand

Guest lectured Philosophy of the Arts (PHIL212/332) on the following topics: evolutionary and cultural theories of the origins of art, ontological contextualism, the ontology of artworks, the interpretation of literary works, and the paradox of emotional responses to fiction. (July 2013, September 2012 & August 2010.)

Auckland, New Zealand

• Tutored the following papers in the University of Auckland philosophy department:
• Philosophy of the Arts (July-November, 2009, 2010 & 2012)
• 20th Century French Philosophy (July-November, 2011)
• Power, Critique and Emancipation (March-June, 2010)
• Critical Thinking (March-June, 2009)

Auckland, New Zealand

MA with First Class Honours in Philosophy: “The Ontology of Theatre.” I examine the nature of theatrical works and their performances. I defend a descriptivist (as opposed to revisionist) approach to the project of the ontology of theatre. Using this approach, I construct a theory of the nature, identity and persistence conditions of theatrical works. I.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Co-ordinated with philosophy tutors on workshops for first year papers provided over summer school.
• Ran regular open office-hours in the philosophy department to provide mentoring support for undergraduate students.

Auckland, New Zealand And Sheffield, UK

• Developed, documented and implemented many system enhancements for the Airport 20/20 flight information management system.
• Provided on-site implementation and training for the Airport 20/20 FIMS in New Zealand (Wellington International Airport, 2006), Finland (Finavia, Helsinki, 2005-6), Ghana (Kotoka Airport, Accra, 2005), Maldives (Gan.
• Provided support services to all global FIMS customers (the above mentioned customers plus customers in the UK, Canada and Australia).
• Rostered for on-call 24/7 global support for customers.
• Established strong business relationships while working with Airport 20/20 customers.
• Worked on significant system modifications including the porting of Airport 20/20 to run on SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Role: Product development team.
• Succeeded in adapting Gentrack, Talgentra’s integrated billing and customer information system, to US energy customer requirements.
• Designed, developed and tested enhancements to Gentrack on Oracle database.Role: Meridian Energy support team.
• Senior member of the Meridian Energy support team.
• Provided regular on-site support for Meridian operations staff.
• Key member of U5 transition project team in converting 120 000 consumers from SAP to Meridian’s Gentrack billing system.Role: Olympick Financials support team.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Designed and developed graphical user interfaces for the ProMan ERP system providing greater integration with Windows NT.
• Created an easy-to-use Visual Basic report builder that utilised the ProMan database.
• Developed web interface to the ProMan system allowing remote access to product queries, order placement, customer invoice queries.
• Developed site-specific web functionality for ProMan customer.

Master Of Professional Studies, Data Science, First Class Honours

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Philosophy

Master’S Degree, Philosophy, First Class Honours

Bachelor’S Degree, Philosophy

Education record