Assistant Professor Rusty Jones joined the Philosophy Department in 2010, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma the same year. He wrote his dissertation on virtue and happiness on Plato's Euthydemus, arguing (among other gems) that contrary to a long interpretive tradition stretching from the Stoics to our own day, the Euthydemus does not provide good evidence for thinking that Socrates or Plato held that virtue is sufficient for happiness. He has also recently published work on Aristotle ("Truth and Contradiction in Aristotle's De Interpretatione 6-9, Phronesis 55 (2010), 26-67).

This year, Dr. Jones is teaching Phil 7: Intro to Ancient Philosophy (fall); Phil 101: Plato (spring); Phil 206: Aristotle on Truth and Meaning (spring); and Phil 312: Workshop in Metaphysics and Epistemology (fall).