Welcome to Jason John Griffin White's Web page. This is, admittedly, a very simple and rudimentary attempt at a Web page. I promise that more content will appear here soon.
Martin Gleeson used to list all of the reasons why his home page was dull and boring. In keeping with the tradition, I should point out that mine is not only plain, valid HTML, but it even lacked a CSS style sheet until I added a link to the site's default.
At present I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Melbourne, conducting research into contemporary philosophy of language. To be more specific, I am examining the comparative merits of different approaches to the construction of theories of meaning, focusing on the question, originally raised by Michael Dummett, of whether a semantic theory should strive to offer a non-trivial account of the primitive expressions of a language. In addressing this issue, I concentrate in particular on recent advances in inferentialist semantics, as developed by Robert Brandom at the University of Pittsburgh.
Apart from this, I am active in the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Accessibility Initiative, an international, collaborative project aiming to make the World Wide Web more accessible to people with disabilities. From 2000-2004 I had the privilege of working as co-chair, with Gregg Vanderheiden, of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group.
My undergraduate degrees are in arts (with Honours in philosophy) and in law (concentrating on public international law, human rights, Constitutional law and of course legal philosophy). Philosophically, I have engaged with both the analytic and continental European traditions, focusing in the latter case on contemporary French philosophy.
The abstract and references for my Linux.conf.au conference presentation are available on my LCA 2008 conference page.
You are welcome to send me e-mail.
I can also be followed at identi.ca, a micro-blogging service, which is available directly from this page as well.