Assistant Professor of Philosophy
B.A., Mathematics and Philosophy, Temple University
Ph.D., Princeton University
Professor Thau works in the areas of philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology. He has also done work in formal logic and is interested in Spinoza and the intersection between philosophy of mind and ethics and in the emotions.
Selected Bibliography
Consciousness and Cognition (Oxford University Press, 2002)
"Symposium on Consciousness and Cognition" (with Frank Jackson, Sydney Shoemaker, and Bernard Kobes), Philosophical Studies (forthcoming, 2004)
"What is Disjunctivism?" Philosophical Studies (2004)
"What's Puzzling Gottlob Frege?" (with Benjamin Caplan), Canadian Journal of Philosophy, 2001.
Recent Courses
• Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind
• Seminar in the Philosophy of Mind: The Philosophy of the Emotions
Contact Information
Office: 719 Anderson Hall
Mailing Address:
Department of Philosophy
Anderson Hall
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone: (215) 204-8293