Amie L. Thomasson

Amie L. Thomasson is the Daniel P. Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy. She specializes in metaphysics, metametaphysics, philosophy of art and literature, philosophy of mind, and phenomenology. She has also done work on modality, conceptual engineering, artifacts, fictional characters, and social and cultural objects. Her recent work focuses on questions about what metaphysics, and philosophy more generally, can legitimately do, and how we can do it. She is the author of over 90 articles, and five books: Fiction and Metaphysics (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Ordinary Objects (Oxford University Press, 2007), Ontology Made Easy (Oxford University Press, 2015--awarded the Sanders Book Prize by the American Philosophical Association.), Norms and Necessity (Oxford University Press 2020), and Rethinking Metaphysics (Oxford University Press 2026). Before coming to Dartmouth in 2017, she held positions at the University of Miami, the University of Hong Kong, and Texas Tech University. She has been named one of the "50 most influential living philosophers".