Iain Thomson
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Born | Iain Donald Thomson 1968 (age 52–53) |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental Existentialism |
Main interests | philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature, philosophy of education, comics theory[1] |
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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.
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[]
- ^ 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.]
- ^ An interview with Iain Thomson by Figure/Ground Communication
- ^ Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity reviewed by Lee Braver
- ^ Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom
- ^ Thomson's Faculty Webpage
External links[]
- The UNM Faculty Homepage of Iain Thomson
- An interview with Thomson on his book Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education
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- Phenomenologists
- Continental philosophers
- Political philosophers
- Environmental philosophers
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- Philosophers from New Mexico
- Existentialists
- Philosophy academics
- Heidegger scholars
- Living people
- 1968 births
- University of New Mexico faculty
- University of California, San Diego alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
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