Michael Thompson (PhD, UCLA, 1992) has been an assistant professor at UCLA and a visiting professor at the University of Leipzig; he has held a Laurance Rockefeller fellowship at the University Center for Human Values, Princeton, and a Burkhardt fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study. His current interests are ethics, political theory, philosophy of mind, and theory of action. The philosophers who most interest him are Aristotle, Aquinas, Kant, Hegel, Marx, Frege, and Wittgenstein.