Amie Lynn Thomasson (born July 4, 1968) is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Thomasson specializes in
metaphysics
Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...
,
philosophy of mind
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,
phenomenology
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Art
* Phenomenology (architecture), based on the experience of building materials and their sensory properties
Philosophy
* Phenomenology (philosophy), a branch of philosophy which studies subjective experiences and a ...
and the
philosophy of art
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. She is the author of ''Fiction and Metaphysics'' (1999), ''Ordinary Objects'' (2007), ''Ontology Made Easy'' (2015), and ''Norms and Necessity'' (2020).
["Curriculum Vitae"]
amiethomasson.org.
*Richard Marshall
"On the reality of sherlock holmes etc"
, ''3:AM Magazine'', 28 June 2013.
Biography
Thomasson was a visiting student at
Brasenose College, Oxford
Brasenose College (BNC) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. It began as Brasenose Hall in the 13th century, before being founded as a college in 1509. The library and chapel were added in the mi ...
(1987–1988) before obtaining her BA from
Duke University
Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...
in 1989, her MA in philosophy from the
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and pr ...
(UCI) in 1992 and her PhD in 1995, also from UCI. While at UCI, she studied primarily under David Woodruff Smith.
She then worked as a teaching assistant at UCI (1992–1995), a visiting instructor at the
University of Salzburg
The University of Salzburg (german: Universität Salzburg), also known as the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg (''Paris-Lodron-Universität Salzburg'', PLUS), is an Austrian public university
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, Austria (1993), assistant professor of philosophy at
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech University (Texas Tech, Tech, or TTU) is a public research university in Lubbock, Texas. Established on , and called Texas Technological College until 1969, it is the main institution of the five-institution Texas Tech University Sys ...
(1995–2000), and research assistant professor at the
University of Hong Kong
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) (Chinese: 香港大學) is a public research university in Hong Kong. Founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese, it is the oldest tertiary institution in Hong Kong. HKU was also the fi ...
(1998–2000). In 2000 she joined the
University of Miami
The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, incl ...
as an assistant, then associate and ultimately, full professor. She joined the faculty at
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native A ...
in July 2017.
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Selected works
*''Norms and Necessity'', Oxford University Press, 2020.
*''Ontology Made Easy'', Oxford University Press, 2015.
*''Ordinary Objects'', Oxford University Press, 2007.
*with David W. Smith (eds.), ''Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind'', Oxford University Press, 2005.
*''Fiction and Metaphysics'', Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Notes
External links
Personal website
University of Miami.
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1968 births
20th-century American philosophers
21st-century American philosophers
Philosophers from Florida
American women philosophers
Analytic philosophers
Living people
Metaphysicians
Phenomenologists
Philosophers of art
Philosophers of mind
University of California, Irvine alumni
Dartmouth College faculty
20th-century American women
21st-century American women