Daisy Dixon

Dr Daisy Dixon is a prize-winning philosopher, and an artist. She is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Cardiff University, having been a postdoctoral Research Fellow at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge (2018-2022). After receiving a First Class BA in Art & Philosophy from the University of Reading in 2013, she began graduate work at the University of Cambridge, gaining a Distinction for her MPhil in Philosophy in 2014. Her PhD was funded by a School of Arts and Humanities Full Doctoral Award at the University of Cambridge, and was awarded in May 2019.

Daisy specialises in the philosophy of art and aesthetics - particularly immoral and dangerous art that entrenches social injustice - and her work has been published in top-tier academic journals. Her current project concerns aesthetic injustice: how we can be unfairly harmed in distinctively aesthetic ways. Her teaching interests span aesthetics, philosophy of language, ethics, feminist philosophy, and political philosophy.

Daisy has written for various magazines on art and morality, regularly contributes to podcasts, and has appeared several times on BBC radio to discuss the problem of immoral artists, and AI generated image-based abuse. Daisy is also a trained artist, with an art practice in painting and sonic installation.

Her book Depraved: the story of dangerous art was published by Faber on 18th June 2026.