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III, Joe Frank Jones, was born on August 2, 1949 in Macon, Georgia, United States. Son of Joe Frank Junior and Ruth Beatrice (Smith) J.
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A Modest Realism: Preserving Common Rationality in Philosophy
(What do words have to do with the world? Do our concepts ...)
What do words have to do with the world? Do our concepts make the world the way it is for us? If concepts do make the world what it is for us, is this making complete, without residue of a natural world, and how does this making occur? Is there a real world to which word and concepts refer that anchors their meaning? What is the role of the imagination in making words have meaning? Is understanding embodied, conceptual, or both? A Modest Realism explores these questions through its examination of the foundations of articulatable experience. It joins language and experience in a non-essentialist realism, while avoiding the non sequiturs and practical impossibilities of most twentieth century postmodern philosophers.
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Joe Frank Jones, III
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Bachelor in English, Armstrong State College, 1975. Master of Arts in Philosophy, University Georgia, 1979. Master of Arts in Philosophy, Florida State University, 1981.
Doctor of Philosophy in Philosophy, Florida State University, 1983.
Career
Fellow, teaching assistant, instructor department philosophy/religion University Georgia, Athens, 1976-1979. Fellow, teaching assistant, instructor department philosophy Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1979-1983. President Southeast American Capital, Inc., Savannah, Georgia, 1983-1985.
Software course developer Bell Northern Research, Northern Telecom, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1985-1987. Associate director department church extension Baptist State Convention of North Carolina, Cary, 1987-1989. Director department substance abuse and dependence The Council on Christian Life and Public Affairs, 1989-1991.
Assistant professor philosophy Barton College, Wilson, North Carolina, 1991-1998, professor philosophy, since 1998.
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A Modest Realism: Preserving Common Rationality in Philosophy
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A Modest Realism: Preserving Common Rationality in Philosophy
Membership
Cons. Lieutenant Governor's Drug Cabinet, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1989. Board directors Wake County Parent to Parent, 1990. Sergeant United States Air Force, 1968-1972, Vietnam.
Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Phil. Association, North Carolina Adult Children of Alcoholics (board directors 1989-1991), Phi Kappa Phi.
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Married Polly Ann Bush, August 27, 1983. 1 child, Jesse Leandra.
