Stephen Lester Thompson, PhD
Director of the Laboratory for Research in the Logical Sciences
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy
William Paterson University of New Jersey
Wayne NJ 07470 USA
thompsons (at) wpunj (dot) edu
About me
I am Associate Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy at William Paterson University, where I direct the Laboratory for Research in the Logical Sciences. My previous appointment was at Howard University. I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York for a dissertation entitled "Interpretation in the black speech community," and my B.S. in biology from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. While at Rensselaer I also took an M.S. in philosophy for a thesis entitled "The logic of body propositions."
My research interests are in problems in symbolic logic, with varied applications of logic to neurobiology, semantics, and legal theory; problems in abstract algebra and metaphysics; and philosophical problems arising in the history of black American thought.
I divide my time between New York City and New York’s Hudson Valley.
