I started my long-delayed DPhil (PhD) two years ago, having decided
that I had been with Peace Corps Washington as a technical support
specialist for long enough, and it was time to move on. I had lived
in the UK and attended the University of Sussex twice previously, in
1984-1985 (as an undergraduate exchange student from Northwestern
University) and in 1989-1992 (as an MSc student, followed by a
two-year research assistantship at the University of Manchester).
I've had pretty much a life-long interest in writing and language,
which developed into an interest in the concepts underlying language,
which led me into ideas about how we could create computer models of
those conceptual structures, which resulted in my present home in
philosophy of mind.
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