- Ph.D., Classics, Philosophy, History & Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh
- M.A., Classics, University of Pittsburgh
- B.A., St. John's College, Annapolis, MD
Education & Training
Representative Publications
- Newell, J. (2023). "PROBABILITIES INVOLVING DIRECTIONAL SIMILARITY." Originally published in The Mathematical Scientist 39 37-44 (2014) and 41 74 (2016).
- Newell, J. (2022). "FINDING ITHACA, AND SENSE IN PARMENIDES B1.3: THE HOMERIC MEANING OF ΕΙΔΩΣ." The Classical Quarterly, 72(1), 53-68. doi:10.1017/S0009838822000374
- Dissertation: Parmenidean Irony (2002).
Research Interests
Presocratic philosophy; ontology; Homer; Greco-Roman math, science, engineering & technology; Catullus; Ovid; the transition to modernism; political theory; the nature of modern science; gravity; relativity theory; quantum mechanics (particularly the EPR/Bell problem); probability theory; teleology, etc.