Amie L. Thomasson
Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
Dartmouth College
Amie Thomasson works in the areas of metaphysics, philosophical methodology and metaontology, philosophy of art, philosophy of social and cultural objects, philosophy of mind and phenomenology.
She is the author of five books: Fiction and Metaphysics, Ordinary Objects, Ontology Made Easy, Norms and Necessity, and Rethinking Metaphysics, and co-edited (with David W. Smith) Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind.
She has also published more than 90 papers on topics in metaphysics, metaontology, fiction, philosophy of mind and phenomenology, the philosophy of art, and social ontology.
For details and preprints of many of the papers, see publications.
BOOKS
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A new volume of essays about Thomasson's work has recently appeared as Thomasson on Ontology in the series Philosophers In Depth (ed. Miguel Garcia-Godinez, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).
The volume includes an introductory article by Thomasson, "How it all Hangs Together", discussing how the different parts of her work over the last three decades fit together to form part of a systematic approach.
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Honors and Awards
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Ontology Made Easy was awarded the American Philosophical Association's 2017 Sanders Book Prize, "awarded to the best book in philosophy of mind, metaphysics, or epistemology that engages the analytic tradition published in English in the previous five-year period".
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Thomasson has held Fellowships with the National Endowment for the Humanities that helped support the writing of Ordinary Objects and Ontology Made Easy. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for academic year 2022-23, for work on a project entitled Rethinking Metaphysics. She is also the awardee of the 2022 Pufendorf Medal.
She delivered the 2017 Wedberg Lectures at the University of Stockholm in Sweden, the 2021 Whitehead Lectures at Harvard University, the 2022 Anna Tumarkin Lectures in Bern, Switzerland, and the 2022 Pufendorf Lectures in Lund, Sweden.
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