# Ward Jones

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'''Ward E. Jones''' is a [scholar](/source/scholar) at [Rhodes University](/source/Rhodes_University) in [Grahamstown](/source/Grahamstown), [South Africa](/source/South_Africa), where he is a [professor](/source/professor) of [philosophy](/source/philosophy). He joined the department in 1999.

His DPhil. thesis, ''The View from Here: A First-Person Constraint on Believing'', was completed in [1998](/source/1998_in_literature) at [Oxford University](/source/Oxford_University). While finishing his thesis, Jones spent three years teaching philosophy at various colleges in Oxford.

Jones has published in the areas of [epistemology](/source/epistemology), [ethics](/source/ethics), [philosophy of mind](/source/philosophy_of_mind), [aesthetics](/source/aesthetics), and metaphilosophy.

With a 1997 paper, "Why Do We Value Knowledge?", published in ''[American Philosophical Quarterly](/source/American_Philosophical_Quarterly)'', he won regard as one of the early contributors to the nascent debate on the [Meno problem](/source/Meno). In collaboration with [Samantha Vice](/source/Samantha_Vice), he has edited and contributed to ''Ethics at the Cinema'', which was published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) in 2010.

Turning to metaphilosophy in 2013, he completed a short manuscript, ''Dissensus and the Value of Philosophy'', on the value of philosophy to the non-philosopher. It is currently under consideration at publishers.

He is currently co-editor of ''[Philosophical Papers](/source/Philosophical_Papers)'', published by Routledge.

==External links==
*''Philosophical Papers '''[http://www.informaworld.com/rppa]'''''.

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