David L. Thompson

My home address is:

7 Barnes Place
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5G9 Canada

E-Mail daitittbk@proton.me

My office is:

Room: AA 2062
Philosophy Department
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, Newfoundland
A1C 5S7 Canada
Phone: (709) 864-8966; Fax (709) 864-2187

 Philosophical Interests:

• Philosophy of Mind (e.g. relationship of consciousness to neural system)

• Phenomenology (e.g. description of our immediate experience)

• Post-Modernism (e.g. what is meaning; where does it originate?)

• Philosophy of Human Sciences (e.g. can there be a science of free humans?)

• Mass-Media & the Internet as a mass medium (e.g. do the media manipulate us or educate and free us?)

Education:

1988 Finished all course work required for B.A. in Computer Science from Memorial University of Newfoundland.

1970 Doctorate degree in Philosophy, Institut Superieur de
Philosophie of the University of Louvain, Belgium. November 1970.

 Dissertation: Culture and Personality: Methodological and Philosophical Foundations in the Anthropology of Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead.
 Defended with "La plus grand distinction," 1970.  Advisor: Jean Ladriere.

1968 Licence degree in Philosophy, Institut Superieur de Philosophie of the University of Louvain, Belgium, February, 1968.

1966 Master of Arts in Philosophy, West Virginia University, August 1966.

 Thesis: The Nature of Basic Explanation, A study in the philosophy of psychology based on C. Taylor's The Explanation of Behaviour.
  Advisor: Karel (Joe) K. Lambert.

Bachelor of Science (Hons.) in pure Mathematics, University of Alberta, May 1962.

High School: Dublin, Ireland, and Calgary, Canada.

List of Presentations and Publications

Papers Presented to Memorial University Philosophy Department's Colloquium

Semi-Academic Presentations and Publications

Book: Becoming a self: The past, present and future of selfhood (2023)

Selection of Philosophical Papers Online:

• The Body as the Active Principle in the Constitution of Perceptual Space (1977)

• Individuality: Essence, Horizon and Language

• The Origin of Universals

• Ideology and Social Reality

• Order Out of Chaos

• Freedom and Determinism: A Naturalistic Approach

• What, if Anything, is Represented? Objects in their Worlds 1992

• Concepts of Nature: are Environmentalists Confused?

• Rorty and Husserl on Realism, Idealism and Intersubjective Solidarity

• The Phenomenology of Internal Time-consciousness

• Time in Physics

• Intentionality and Causality in John Searle

• On Naturalizing Intentionality 1985

• Overcoming our Childhood: Metaphors and the History of Philosophy 2002

• Selfhood and Rationality 2003

• Intuition by Whom? Responsibility and the Role of the Self 2004

• A Brief History of Mind 2006

• What Makes Us Essentially Different? 2007

• Causal, Teleological and Evolutionary Explanation 2008

• Constructing Responsibility 2009

• Thought and Image 2010

• Body as the Unity of Action 2011

• Norms of Life 2012

• Constitution of Objects by Systems 2013

• Contextualizing Objects 2014

• Origins of Objectivity 2015

• Normative Binding 2016

• The evolutionary origin of selfhood in normative emotions 2016

• Defining Language 2018

Updated 2023-10-20  by David L. Thompson

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