Iain Thomson

Iain D. Thomson (born 1968) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He is a well-known expert on Martin Heidegger.

Iain D. Thomson
Born
Iain Donald Thomson

1968 (age 51–52)
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
EraContemporary philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental
Existentialism
Main interests
philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, philosophy of education, comics theory[1]
Left to right: Tao Ruspoli, Mark Wrathall and Iain Thomson, November 2013

Education and career

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. As a visiting graduate student at UC Irvine, he also studied with Jacques Derrida. He is known for his expertise on Heidegger's philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature 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
  • Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780521172493
  • Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2005, ISBN 052161659X

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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