John David Soto
Colleges Attended
Jones College - Acquired a real estate license. Summer 2003.
Metropolitan State College of Denver - Graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. majoring in Philosophy and minoring in Language and Linguistics. Spring 2007.
University of Iowa - M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy TBA. Fall 2007 - Present.
Philosophical Interests:
Philosophy of Language, esp. Kripke's Wittgenstein, Kripke, Putnam, and meaning externalism. I did my senior thesis concentrating on developing a pointed analysis of Boghossian's concept of extensionality in his paper on Kripke's Wittgenstein.
Early Modern Philosophy, esp. Hume and the British Empiricists.
Philosophy of Religion, esp. William James, Tolstoy, and Eliade.
Personal:
I was born in San Francisco, although I was raised in Puerto Rico for the first few years of my life. I have three younger siblings. I moved to Denver, Colorado when I was 13 years old. I went to school in Colorado and didn't quite enjoy being a high school student. I did oddjobs after high school: pizza place manager, pharmaceutical supplies and book delivery, real estate agent, GED instructor. College was a much more enjoyable experience; I tried to make the most of it. I worked full-time for Echostar, otherwise known as Dish Network, as a tech support guy while I went to college full time. It was a harrowing and taxing experience, but ultimately beneficial.
I am happily married. I enjoy playing video games, listening to techno/trance, reading on popular topics in politics, and watching film noir movies when I have the time (almost never). I communicate in Spanish fluently, read basic Latin, and I have been learning German as an ongoing project for the last four years.
