Background
Thomasson, Amie Lynn was born on July 4, 1968 in Gainesville, Florida, United States. Daughter of Walter Neill and Clarissa Camfield Thomasson.
Thomasson, Amie Lynn was born on July 4, 1968 in Gainesville, Florida, United States. Daughter of Walter Neill and Clarissa Camfield Thomasson.
Bachelor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1989. Master of Arts, University California, Irvine, California, 1992. Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Irvine, North Carolina, 1995.
She is the author of Fiction and Metaphysics (1999), Ordinary Objects (2007), and Ontology Made Easy (2015). Thomasson was a visiting student at Brasenose College, Oxford (1987–1988) before obtaining her Bachelor from Duke University in 1989, her Master of Arts in philosophy from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 1992 and her Doctor of Philosophy in 1995, also from UCI. 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 Technical 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, now full professor
Thomasson specializes in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, phenomenology and the philosophy of art
Member of American Society Aesthetics (trustee since 2005), American Philosophical Association (life).
Married Peter John Lewis, June 6, 1996.