Amie Thomasson
Amie Lynn Thomasson is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Thomasson specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the philosophy of art. She is the author of Fiction and Metaphysics, Ordinary Objects, and Ontology Made Easy.Biography
Thomasson was a visiting student at Brasenose College, Oxford before obtaining her BA from Duke University in 1989, her MA in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine 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, a visiting instructor at the University of Salzburg, Austria, assistant professor of philosophy at Texas Tech University, and research assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong. In 2000 she joined the University of Miami as an assistant, then associate and ultimately, full professor. She joined the faculty at Dartmouth College in July 2017.Selected works
