Thomas Ryan Stone

This page is a brief statement about the creator of EpistemeLinks, and President of EpistemeLinks, Inc., a not-for-profit corporation.

I currently live in a suburb of Rochester, New York. I have a BA in philosophy from the University of Rochester (1995). After one year of graduate work in philosophy at Ohio State University, I elected to go into the computer field.

Since 1999 I have been employed at Element K as an Instructional Designer. I have developed print and e-Learning materials on topics such as Active Server Pages, ASP.NET, XSLT, XML DOM, XML Schemas, Microsoft Access, Mathematics for Business Executives, and other areas. I also spent one year as a manager.

Since 1997 I have also been a computer consultant working on over a dozen Web site projects. Of particular interest to EpistemeLinks visitors would be the fact that I was the webmaster from 8/1997 through 8/2000 for the 20th World Congress of Philosophy, the largest online philosophy publishing project to date (over 900 papers from the August 1998 conference are available online). In recent years I have ceased working on client projects so that I can spend more time developing EpistemeLinks.

I am married to Susan Dawn Wake, a philosophy professor originally from Ontario, Canada. She has taught various philosophy courses at Concordia University in Montreal and St. Mary's University in Halifax, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Monroe Community College.

We have two young cats named Pepsi and Sprite. Socrates the cat died in Spring 2005.

For more information, see my personal website and my blog, Philosopher Stone.