J. W. Powell, Website Summary and C.V.
Hovering just right of the bullets on the home page should give a basic
picture. After years
of putting more and more onto an increasingly cluttered front page, the Moral
Equivalent of a bulging shoebox of papers, sticky notes, and snapshots, I've organized the
website by categories, generally with the more formal
materials near the top of the list. Anyone who wants to see what that mess looked like can find it here.
This semester's syllabi and materials are the top link. My resume or Curriculum Vitae (selected to eliminate some but not all of the most boring
features) is on this, the second link. The category of Courses is
next. Thinking,
Professional, which consists of academic papers and drafts of current academic projects,
is the fourth link. Thinking,
Inappropriate--parodies, jokes, light
writing, lies, are on the fifth link. Pictures, mostly of family, and personal
gossip comes sixth. Windeggs is a hard-to-classify
writing project, which is perhaps philosophical or perhaps
anti-philosophical. Last is Yinks (my toddler son's pronunciation--that's the kind of guy you're dealing with here)
which contains taxonomized links to some places you might find interesting if you find this site interesting and some which are
interesting even if mine is not.
What might help you decide whether to proceed further? I'm a Wittgensteinian ordinary language philosopher, a product of
the University of Oregon's graduate program back when it had some bite and
back when it attracted students from across the English-speaking
world to study with Frank Ebersole, John Wisdom, John Cook, Don Levi,
William Davie, Bob Herbert, Henry Alexander. The phrase ordinary language philosopher
marks a somewhat testy relationship with the rest of the world's
Wittgensteinians. I'm happy to correspond about what that means, but some
of what it means is on exhibit here, in paper drafts.
My c.v. is here.
I'm happy to receive comments or questions
about any of this.