OLLI Scholarship Philosophy

Thaddeus John Lawson is an M.A. student in philosophy at Mason. He received his B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with a double major in philosophy and political science and a minor in Japanese. His philosophical interests include ethics, aesthetics, Buddhism, pragmatism, and continental philosophy generally, especially Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, and Deleuze & Guattari. Other interests include literature, music, history, animals, nature, and playing—not watching—sports. In Fall 2023, he received a grant from the Osher Lifelong Learning Foundation. He hopes, one day, to write professionally.