Professional, Academic "About Me"

This is my profile on academia.edu. A lot of scholars and academics write theirs very differently. I wrote mine like this so upcoming students would know they are not alone.

-Jennifer

My name is Jennifer Lee Lawson. I was a teen mom. I began my academic career at a community college, Daytona Beach Community College, then transferred to Stetson University (04). I went there because it was the highest ranking school I could commute to. I studied philosophy and psychology. I tried my best and began carrying a philosophy encyclopedia with me so I could look up terms to this new language. I also studied psychology there.

For some reason I had a dream of going to grad school. I took a year off after undergrad and thought, read books and got ready.

I attended UNF for grad school. I'm glad they gave me a chance. I decided I'd try to make A's. I did make A's. I didn’t care about grades as an undergraduate. I only cared about learning course content. I still cared about course content—and way more than basic course content—in grad school.

While at UNF, I co-edited an academic blog, The Florida Student Philosophy Blog That's how I really got opened up to the wide world of philosophy. Thank you, Dr. Rico Vitz and fellow bloggers!

At UNF, they were kind enough to allow me to teach Intro to Philosophy. I really wanted to do it and loved it. I thought and read deeply and broadly on a variety of topics I taught.

I was also an RA for the book Reading Bernard Williams (Ed. Daniel Callcut). I don't know if I did well. It was really my first time with academic publications, but I was called a “superb research assistant” in the acknowledgments.

Later, I was the infamous "Reviewer Two" for several years for an international journal on logic, metaphysics, and language. I edited Saul Kripke, among other great philosophers.

I had some health issues. I had to take time off before finally graduating with my MA (2023).

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A Hanukkah Message on Furher Trump From One Yet Living

President-Elect (notice how I've never disputed that he won the 2024 election) Donald Trump has been frothing at the mouth in Hitlerian fashion , threatening to claim Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal. Perhaps he knows--perhaps he doesn't--that these are war threats he is making. He seems pretty damn confident that The Department of Defense will do as he says, as if he were already--or is going to be--an absolute ruler. Not to belabor this point, but my direct ancestral lineage, from which we get our current military, fought The American Revolutionary War so we wouldn't have an absolute ruler. Far worse than a king, Donald J. Trump is aiming to be a dictator along the lines of Vladimir Putin, who has attacked Ukraine, which The United States, along with allies, have been supporting since Day 1. Caught in his frothy dreams, to Trump, the world may look like his oyster. He must know our military's fame; he must be confident of it. With due respect to the presiden...

Free Readings! & Readings Available For Purchase! (2024)

M y Writing Year In Review (2024). I graduated with my M.A. in 2023. Despite having sepsis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and being diagnosed with Stage 1 cancer in 2024, I managed to be more prolific this year than most years. Below is my year in review, separated by what you can read for free, and the few things available for purchase. Here's what you can read for free: I started the year by writing a book review that was oh-so-controversial . The next day or so, I proceeded to write the paper " Radical Logic ," which I first submitted to The United States Military. It is now declassified and open to everyone. I was then offered a chance to write about my true passion. I decided to write about a problem I had been working on for years: infinite cardinal numbers . I made two arguments on transgender language. I defended them publicly and then made a finale argument, which basically tells TERFS that they don't understand the English language . Here's what you can pay...

Sgt. Marion Lester Lawson (Special Forces, Korean Conflict)

My dad was in the the military during the Korean Conflict. Today, he would be known as a Green Beret . Below is a coffee cup I thought I had lost that he bought for me me when I was 8 years old. I infrequently get manic and give away stuff that I actually love. You can visit my dad's memorial online here . Veteran's Affairs has thoughtfully put his grave online, which is nice because I don't have to go all the way to Texas to put a daisy wreath on his grave. I've put some weird stuff on it, but I've also put some really great stories on it. Everyone who knew him has different stories to tell--some good, some bad. Above is a picture of my dad and my daughter on the day he cooked buffalo burgers and grilled corn on the cobb that he grew himself. When I was older, my dad had the bracelet below engraved for me. I thought I had lost that, too. It says "Jennifer" on one side, and "Dad" on the other. My dad's song for me was "The Yellow Rose...

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