Paul Crowther MRIA (/ˈkraʊðər/; born 24 August 1953) is a British philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy and author specialising in the fields of aesthetics, metaphysics, and visual culture. He has written nine books in the field of History of Art and Philosophy. He was born in Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, and he was raised in the Belle Isle estate, Hunslet, and Middleton areas of south Leeds. He began taking an interest in art and philosophy at the age of 16. He is a proponent of an approach to aesthetics he dubbed "post-analytic phenomenology".