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Degrees

  • B.A., Newcastle on Tyne (England) 1978
  • Ph.D., Balliol College (Oxford, England) 1984
Courses Taught
  • PHIL 304: Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science
  • PHIL 251: Rationalism & Empiricism
  • Ethical Theory
  • Understanding Language
  • Kant
Publications
  • 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.