Thomas Ryan Stone

This page is a brief statement about the creator of EpistemeLinks.

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, Manager of Instructional Design, and now Product Design Architect.

From 1997 - 2001 I also did freelance work as 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 2008 I published a unique book: Frontier Experience or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident, by J.E.L. Seneker, a distant relative of mine. The book was originally published in 1906, and I am the editor of this newly published edition. It is a curious and humorous book that tells of Seneker's time spent in America's frontier west in the 1870s. What is unique about the book is the writing style used: a unique use of language that is intentionally difficult to read through the use of the biggest and most obscure words the author could find!

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 for the past ten years has taught philosophy as an adjunct professor at Monroe Community College, RIT, and St. John Fisher College.

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

For more information, see my personal website.