Dr Edward Winters studied Fine Art at Portsmouth College of Art and as a postgraduate painter at The Slade School of the Fine Arts, University College London (UCL). At both institutions he worked within the European Constructivist tradition and, more specifically, as a Systems Artist. On his departure from the Slade, he was awarded the Boise Travelling Scholarship (to Amsterdam); and was subsequently appointed as a stipendiary Fellow of Cheltenham College of Art. He later held a residency for foreign artists at the Stedekijk Museum in Amsterdam.

Whilst at the Slade School he became interested in aesthetics and studied with tutorial guidance provided by Professor Richard Wollheim in the Philosophy Department. He developed that interest whilst continuing to make paintings and assemblages. His subsequent study included a BA and an M. Phil in Philosophy at Birkbeck College London; and he wrote up his Phd in the Department of Philosophy at UCL, under the supervision of Professor Malcolm Budd . He was subsequently a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University of St. Andrews.

He is an elected member of the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) and is a council member of the Royal Institute of Philosophy (TRIP). Academic memberships include: British Society of Aesthetics, the European Society of Aesthetics, and the American Society of Aesthetics. He was co-director of History and Theory of Art and Architecture at the Polytechnic of Central London and its current incarnation as the University of Westminster. He wrote and directed the University of Sussex Master of Fine Arts programme in the Department of Fine Art at West Dean College (The Edward James Foundation); and he taught aesthetics in the Department of History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent.

His books include: Dealing with the Visual (co-edited with Caroline van Eck); Aesthetics and Architecture; and Architectural Aesthetics: Appreciating Architecture As An Art. He is currently working on a book with the working title, Aesthetic Judgements in the Fine Arts and Beyond. He is published widely in aesthetics and in art criticism; and regularly contributes to academic conferences. He continues to make art.