Philosopher of the Week: Amie Thomasson (Miami)

Amie Thomasson is really one of the finest philosophers I have seen working on an Analytic Phenomenology.
Her contributions are:
1. An interpretation of phenomenological reduction.
2.That of eidetic variation. She interprets it as a kind of conceptual analysis in the sense of Ryle.
Amie Thomasson (Ph.D., University of California-Irvine), Professor and Parodi Senior Scholar in Aesthetics. Her areas of specialization are in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and philosophy of art. She is the author of Ordinary Objects (Oxford University Press, 2007), Fiction and Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and co-editor (with David W. Smith) of Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind (Oxford University Press, 2005). In addition she has published numerous book chapters and articles on topics including metaontology, fiction, philosophy of mind and phenomenology, and the metaphysics of artifacts, works of art and other social objects. She is currently working on problems regarding modality, existence questions, and the methods of metaphysics.

Office: Ashe building, Rm. 701
Phone #: 305-284-5315
Email: thomasson@miami.edu

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