Background
Since Autumn 2007, I have been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
I received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from The Ohio State University in December 2006, and an M.A. along the way in June 2004. My dissertation, Ineliminable Idealizations, Phase Transitions, and Irreversibility, was examined by: Robert Batterman (advisor), Neil Tennant (co-advisor), Stewart Shapiro, and Robert Perry (Physics). My academic genealogy includes Carl Hempel, Hans Reichenbach, Emmy Noether, and Carl Jacobi.
I graduated magna cum laude at Saint Francis College (PA) in June 2000 with a major in Philosophy and minors in both History and Mathematics, although I began my college career as a Physician Assistant major.
I hail from a former coal mining town in the mountains of Western Pennsylvania and lived the first decade of my life in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to becoming a philosophy teacher, the most interesting jobs I had were being a proofreader for a medical transcription company, being a desk clerk/night auditor at a hotel, and coaching a high school soccer team.
Research
Under construction. More detail here.
Teaching
Office Hours (Fall 2008): MW 1:30 - 3:30, TR 2:30-3:30
For the Fall 2008 semester, I am teaching Introduction to Logic, Introduction to Ethics, and Philosophy of Science.
Contact
332B Morton Hall
Department of Philosophy
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
301 Sparkman Drive
Huntsville, AL 35899
Office: 256.824.2338
Fax: 256.824.2387
Email: Nick[dot]Jones[at]uah[dot]edu