"John Hawthorne" is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford University, though he continues to teach on a visiting basis at the University of Southern California. In 2015, he will begin teaching full-time at the University of Southern California. He is primarily known for his work in metaphysics and epistemology; his 2006 collection Metaphysical Essays offers original treatments of fundamental topics in philosophy, including identity, ontology, vagueness, and causation.

In his book Knowledge and Lotteries, Hawthorne defends a view in epistemology according to which the presence of knowledge is dependent on the subject's interests. Unlike contextualism, Hawthorne's view does not require that the meaning of the word "know" changes from one context of ascription to another. His view is thus a variety of invariantism. However, whether a subject has knowledge depends to a surprising extent on features of the subject's context, including practical concerns. This position can be classed as a form of pragmatism (Hawthorne, 2004: p. 180). The American philosopher Jason Stanley holds a similar view.

Hawthorne has also written on philosophy of language and philosophical logic, philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, and on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz/Leibniz.

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Like other small men who act as you have acted, you have a Napoleonic complex and need to compensate for what you lack. Little person, big bomb. But you are still a small man.

All Hawaii has streams coming down from everywhere and they all should be maintained so that everybody can feel safe.

After all that you've said and all that you have done, the law is still in place and nothing has changed – except many people have suffered. Do you really expect the world of man to believe that innocent people had to die so you could make your voice heard?

One of the neighbors' houses and supposedly a few people down there, who knows.

Nobody has to ever suffer someone losing their kids to an event like this.

May God bless you with a long life.

What we're looking at used to be a huge forest, like you see across the way. The forest is completely wiped out. Hundred year old trees that were in here are gone. It took everything, it just took everything.

Sounded like a 747 jet crashing here in the valley, all the trees popping and snapping and everything. It was just a horrendous sound, and it never quit.