Rusty Jones

Assistant Professor

Harvard University

Rusty Jones joined the Department in 2010, after completing his Ph.D. at the University of Oklahoma the same year.  He wrote his dissertation on virtue and happiness in Plato’s Euthydemus and has since continued working primarily on Plato’s epistemology and ethics, but regularly returns to Aristotle as a secondary interest.  His recent articles include “Truth and Contradiction in Aristotle’s De Interpretatione 6-9” (Phronesis 55 [2010], 26-67), and “Rational and Nonrational Desires in Meno and Protagoras (Analytic Philosophy 53 [2012], 224-233).