Mark J. Thomas

Mark J. Thomas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central College (Pella, IA), where he has taught since 2015. While working on his PhD at Boston College (2013), he was the recipient of a DAAD grant to conduct research at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (2012-13). Freedom and Ground: A Study of Schelling’s Treatise on Freedom (SUNY Press, 2023) is his first book. He is also the editor of a volume in the Collected Writings of John Sallis: German Idealism and the Question of System (Indiana University Press, forthcoming). His research interests include the metaphysics of German Idealism, aesthetics, and the epistemology of authority.