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Iain D. Thomson
Born	Iain Donald Thomson 1968 (age 56–57)
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, philosophy of comics

Iain D. Thomson (born 1968) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico (UNM). 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, European philosophy since Kant, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature and environmental philosophy.

Thomson received a National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship and UNM College of Arts and Sciences' Gunter Starkey Teaching Award in 2003. 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.

Family

Thomson's father is psychiatrist Captane "Cap" Thomson, beloved "Doctoring 3" preceptor at UC Davis Medical School.

His younger brother is Mungo Thomson, a contemporary visual artist based in Los Angeles.

Books

• The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945–2015, edited by Kelly Becker and Iain D. Thomson, Cambridge University Press, 2019, ISBN 9781316779651
• 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

• Ontotheology
• The Origin of the Work of Art
• Hubert Dreyfus
• Martin Heidegger
• Jacques Derrida

References

1. Iain Thomson, "Deconstructing the Hero," in Jeff McLaughlin, ed., Comics as Philosophy (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2005), pp. 100–129.
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. "Gunter Starkey Teaching Award | Previous Awardees" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-07-18. Awarded by the UNM College of Arts & Sciences from AY 1998-1999 to AY 2006-2007
6. Thomson's Faculty Webpage
7. "Dr. Captane Thomson, MD - Davis Psychiatrist | Sutter Health". www.sutterhealth.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-28.

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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