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Biography

Martin Thomson-Jones works in the philosophy of science, metaphysics, and the philosophy of physics, and he teaches mainly in these areas and in logic. His current research is focused on a cluster of questions about scientific representation.

Before coming to Â鶹ÊÓƵ, Thomson-Jones was an assistant professor at Princeton University and at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was also a member of the Group in Logic and the Methodology of Science.

He is a Centre Affiliate of the Centre for the Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an associate of the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been visiting associate professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at U.C. Irvine, visiting scholar in the philosophy department at U.N.C. Chapel Hill, visiting fellow in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Bristol, and visiting scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University. In spring 2005, he held a visiting fellowship at the Center for the Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh.