John M. DePoe
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About Me (Briefly)
I recently accepted a position as Instrutor at Black Hawk College for the Fall 2010 semester. I'm a Ph.D. candidate who is about to finish my degree at the philosophy department in the University of Iowa. I am scheduled to defend my dissertation at the end of August 2010. I have a master's degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University and a master's degree in religion from Hardin-Simmons University, which is the same institution where I completed my undergraduate education. My areas of specialization in philosophy include epistemology, metaphysics (especially, philosophy of mind), and philosophy of religion. My secondary areas of research include early modern philosophy and philosophy of language. Among the early modern philosophers I study in depth are Descartes, Leibniz, Malebranche, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, and Spinoza. In philosophy of language, I am particularly interested in the issues that surround theories of meaning and reference, especially Russell's theory of descriptions.
In my free time, I like to play chess and frisbee golf. I am enjoying my third year of marriage with my beautiful and talented wife, Jeannie. We have a shetland sheepdog, Aslan, who has taken to some initial classes on herding sheep. He is a great companion and an adorable dog.
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University of Iowa
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Iowa City
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Contact
On the off-chance you want to contact John by e-mail, follow these instructions. Take my first name, then add the "at" sign, and place after that my first and last name (with no spaces) with the final part of dot com. Got it? It should look something like this, but with the appropriate substitutions (I'm counting on some ingenuity on the part of the one who is trying to contact me):
[my first name][at][my first name & last name w/no spaces][dot com]
I apologize if this is confusing, but I've found this to be the best way to weed out spam mail (and perhaps some unwanted inquiries from the not-so-bright). If you do send me an e-mail, please be patient. Even though I read everything that is sent to me, I don't always have time to respond to all the unsolicited messages I receive. Don't take it personally if I don't write back. It's not meant to be that way.
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