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BRAD THOMPSON
Assistant Professor of PhilosophyPh.D. University of Arizona, 2003
Philosophy Department
Hyer Hall 201C
Southern Methodist University
P.O. Box 750142
Dallas TX 75275-0142
214-768-2119
bthompso@smu.edu
Personal Webpage:
http://faculty.smu.edu/bthompso
Current Research
Much of my research concerns the relationship between the two central features of mentality--consciousness and intentionality. I'm particularly interested in the idea that conscious experiences have a certain kind of intentional content in virtue of their phenomenal character. Much of my work is devoted to defending a Fregean rather than a Russellian theory of this "phenomenal content". I am also particularly interested in related issues concerning the relationship between appearance and reality. Are the phenomenal properties that are present to us in veridical perceptual experience mind-independent properties of external objects, or are they mental or mind-dependent properties?
Representative Publications
- Thompson, B. forthcoming. "The Spatial Content of Experience," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
- Thompson, B. forthcoming. "Senses for Senses," Australasian Journal of Philosophy.
- Thompson, B. forthcoming. "Representationalism and the Conceivability of Inverted Spectra," Synthese.
- Thompson, B. forthcoming. "The Inverted Spectrum," in Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Cleeremans et al.
- Thompson, B. 2007. "Shoemaker on Phenomenal Content," Philosophical Studies 135: 307-334.
- Thompson, B. 2006. "Colour Constancy and Russellian Representationalism," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 84: 75-94.
- Thompson, B. 2006. "Moral Value, Response-Dependence, and Rigid Designation," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 36: 71-94.
- Thompson, B. under review. "Representationalism and the Argument from Hallucination".
Work in Progress
- "Seeing Through Appearances".
- "The Time-lag Argument Revisited".
Teaching
- PHIL 1318: Contemporary Moral Problems
- PHIL 1318H: Contemporary Moral Problems (Honors)
- PHIL 3310: Advanced Topics in Philosophy (Consciousness)
- PHIL 3310: Advanced Topics in Philosophy (Perception)
- PHIL 3315: Philosophy of Mind
