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| birth_date = July 4, 1968
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| education = BA (1989), [[Duke University]] (BA)<br/> MA (1992), philosophy, [[University of California, Irvine]]<br/>PhD (1995)MA, philosophy, University of California, IrvinePhD)
| institutions = [[Dartmouth College]]
| main_interests = [[Metaphysics]], [[philosophy of mind]], [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[Aesthetics|philosophy of art]]
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'''Amie Lynn Thomasson''' (born July 4, 1968) is an American philosopher, currently Professor of Philosophy at Dartmouth College. Thomasson specializes in [[metaphysics]], [[philosophy of mind]], [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]] and the [[Aesthetics|philosophy of art]]. She is the author of ''Fiction and Metaphysics'' (1999), ''Ordinary Objects'' (2007), and ''Ontology Made Easy'' (2015), and ''Norms and Necessity'' (2020).<ref name=cv>[http://thomasson0.wixsite.com/amie-thomasson/cv "Curriculum Vitae"], amiethomasson.org.</ref><ref>Richard Marshall, [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fictionalism-phenomenology-and-ordinary-things/ "On the reality of sherlock holmes etc"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109114152/http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fictionalism-phenomenology-and-ordinary-things/ |date=2013-11-09 }}, ''3:AM Magazine'', 28 June 2013.</ref>
*Richard Marshall, [http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fictionalism-phenomenology-and-ordinary-things/ "On the reality of sherlock holmes etc"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109114152/http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/fictionalism-phenomenology-and-ordinary-things/ |date=2013-11-09 }}, ''3:AM Magazine'', 28 June 2013.</ref>
==Biography==
Thomasson was a visiting student at [[Brasenose College, Oxford]] (1987–1988) before obtaining her BaBA from [[Duke University]] in 1989, her MA in philosophy from the [[University of California, Irvine]] (UCI) in 1992 and her PhD in 1995, also from UCI. While at UCI, she studied primarily under David Woodruff Smith.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.reddit.com/r/philosophy/comments/5nclh2/i_am_amie_thomasson_professor_of_philosophy_and/|title = I am Amie Thomasson, Professor of Philosophy and Cooper Fellow at the University of Miami. AMA about metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of art!|date = 11 January 2017}}</ref> She then worked as a teaching assistant at UCI (1992–1995), a visiting instructor at the [[University of Salzburg]], Austria (1993), assistant professor of philosophy at [[Texas Tech University]] (1995–2000), and research assistant professor at the [[University of Hong Kong]] (1998–2000). In 2000 she joined the [[University of Miami]] as an assistant, then associate and ultimately, full professor. She joined the faculty at [[Dartmouth College]] in July 2017.<ref name=cv/>
==Selected works==
*''Norms and Necessity'', Oxford University Press, 2020.
*''Ontology Made Easy'', Oxford University Press, 2015.
*''Ordinary Objects'', Oxford University Press, 2007.
[[Category:Analytic philosophers]]
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[[Category:MetaphysiciansAmerican metaphysicians]]
[[Category:Phenomenologists]]
[[Category:PhilosophersAmerican philosophers of art]]
[[Category:PhilosophersAmerican philosophers of mind]]
[[Category:University of California, Irvine alumni]]
[[Category:Dartmouth College faculty]]
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