James Wetzel is the Augustinian Chair in the Thought of St. Augustine of the Philosophy Department at Villanova University. His Areas of focus are Augustine and Platonism, moral psychology, metaphysics of evil, mysticism and mythology. His areas of interest are post-Hellenic philosophy (Rome and its discontents), modern philosophy and the cogito (the Cartesian turn), post-Cartesianism and philosophy's end (Wittgenstein). His work has received funding from the Charlotte W. Newcombe Foundation.