Jim Wetzel

Education:

• B.A., summa cum laude, Princeton University (1982)
• Ph.D., Columbia University (Distinction, 1990)

Publications:

• Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (Cambridge 1992) Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed (Continuum 2010) City of God: A Critical Guide, ed. (Cambridge 2012) Parting Knowledge: Essays After Augustine (Cascade 2013)

Honors and Awards:

• Veritas Award for Research, CLAS, 2014
• LACEO/ UCAN Award for Service, 2015

Research:

• Areas of focus: Augustine and Platonism, moral psychology, metaphysics of evil, mysticism and mythology
• Areas of interest: post-Hellenic philosophy (Rome and its discontents), modern philosophy and the cogito (the Cartesian turn), post-Cartesianism and philosophy's end (Wittgenstein)