Elias Compton Professor of Philosophy; Middle Eastern & North African Studies
Biography
Courses Taught
PHIL 304: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
PHIL 251: Rationalism & Empiricism
Ethical Theory
Understanding Language
Kant
Selected Publications & Presentations
Thomson is the author of numerous books including Needs; Kant; Introduction to Modern Philosophy; and a series of introductory texts on Descartes, Locke, Aristotle, Kant, and Leibniz.
He co-edited the six-volume The Longman Standard History of Philosophy.
Other recent works include Una Introduccion a la Practica de la Filosofia, On Philosophy and On the Meaning of Life.
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