Iain Thomson

Iain D. Thomson
Born	1968 (age 47–48)
Era	21st century Philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental
Main interests	existentialism, aesthetics, philosophy of technology, philosophy of education

Left to right: Tao Ruspoli, Mark Wrathall and Iain Thomson, November 2013

Iain D. Thomson (born 1968) is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. He 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. He is known for his expertise on Heidegger's philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology and environmental philosophy.^[1][2][3]

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.^[4]

Books

• Iain D. Thomson, Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity, Cambridge University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780521172493
• Iain D. Thomson, 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

References

1. An interview with Iain Thomson by Figure/Ground Communication
2. Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity reviewed by Lee Braver
3. Heidegger on Ontotheology: Technology and the Politics of Education reviewed by Daniel Dahlstrom
4. 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