Hello all, As I enlisted here some week ago or so and also made some posting today, I will now also give some short introduction about myself.
So, I am Dutch. 32 years old. Have followed some long education, mainly in management. Specialism first in logistics, bachelor level. Then I entered university. My main university was Erasmus University Rotterdam, where I studied Business Administration. Some months exchange study at the Prague University of Economics in Prague. This was one of the most wonderful times of my life, meeting a lot of friends from all kind of nationalities. My specialization at University was change management, which aims at learning consultancy skills. Then after University, I was in a SAP implementation project for about 1,5 year. This was a multi-plant implementation, besides a plant in Netherlands some plant in the Czech Republic was involved. Since I was basically the most well informed and knowable person of this Czech plant at that time (since I was also working there before and during my University studies a bit), I was also responsible for communication with the Czech plant. Then, after this project, I kind of choose to follow my own path of life. Which meant that I started working on some PhD research project in own time. Meanwhile I started some company, but this is not running well yet. I am now in the process of trying to get my company, which will aim at consultancy services, well running. The webpage of the company is www.wilvon.com. Besides, I am probably able to complete my PhD research project within some 3 months or so. After that I might try to get some parttime university teacher job also. I am very interested in the language turn in philosophy, sciences like Rhetoric and Semiotics. I am currently in a discussion group of very critical PhD researchers and some professors at Erasmus University. We try to meet each Monday to discuss several issues and texts. Next weeks Rhetoric will be discussed, several aspects of it. I am very proud that Deirdre Mc Closkey, who is very well-known in the field of Rhetoric, is joining our discussions. I came to know here personally since last year, and ever since I got a lot of very useful information and tips from her. Basically, I am in the learning process myself a lot now. Intellectuals like Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Spinoza, Aristotle have given me lots of insights about life, mainly also because of the good discussions we have on Mondays about them. And some professors joining play a very important part in my developments. Regarding rhetoric, I am also reading Jacques Derrida and Umberto Eco's works. Now reading some texts of Peirce in the Essentials of Peirce volume I and II. Although I think some critical things can be said to his theories (especially when understanding them better) , overall Peirce's works are great. Kind regards from the Netherlands, Wilfred Berendsen -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.371 / Virus Database: 267.14.20/234 - Release Date: 18-1-2006 --- Message from peirce-l forum to subscriber archive@mail-archive.com
