Professor Wilson received his Hon. B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1985, his M.A. from the University of Toronto in 1986, and his Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of California at Berkeley.

Prof. Wilson’s primary research interests lie in the history of science and the philosophical issues surrounding the organization of systematic knowledge in antiquity. His most recent book is on Aristotle's Meteorologica. He is currently working on a book on the systematic nature of Aristotle's physical treatises, and preparing an annotation translation of the first three books of the Meteorologica.