Iain Thomson

Iain D. Thomson
Born 1968 (age 47–48)
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental
Existentialism
Main interests
 Aesthetics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of education, comics theory[1]
Left to right: Tao Ruspoli, Mark Wrathall and Iain Thomson, November 2013

Iain D. Thomson (born 1968) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico.

Biography

Thomson studied as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Hubert Dreyfus, and then earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He is known for his expertise on Heidegger's philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology and environmental philosophy.[2][3][4]

Thomson received the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship. He is featured in Tao Ruspoli's film Being in the World. His articles on Heidegger have been published in such journals as Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Harvard Review of Philosophy, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.[5]

Books

See also

References

  1. ↑ Iain Thomson, "Deconstructing the Hero," in Jeff McLaughlin, ed., Comics as Philosophy (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), pp. 100–129. [An article in which he develops the concept of comics as philosophy.]
  2. ↑ An interview with Iain Thomson by Figure/Ground Communication
  3. ↑ Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity reviewed by Lee Braver
  4. ↑ Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom
  5. ↑ Thomson's Faculty Webpage

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