Donald Phillip Verene
Donald Phillip Verene (born October 24, 1937[1]) is an American philosophy professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University.[2]
Early life and education
Donald Verene was born in Galesburg, Illinois.[1] He studied at Knox College in his hometown, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1959.[1] He earned his doctorate in philosophy at Washington University in 1964.[2]
He is the father of the photographer Chris Verene.
Career
Dr. Verene is a lecturing academic at Emory University.[2] He was Editor of Philosophy and Rhetoric from 1976 to 1987.[3] From 1982 to 1988, he was the Chair of Emory's Department of Philosophy.
Considered a worldwide authority on Giambattista Vico, he leads Emory's Center for Vico Studies.[2] His wife, Molly Black Verene,[1] serves as Assistant Director of the Center.[3]
He also serves as a Visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah.[4]
Verene was a Visiting Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford in 1988. He was a Visiting Scholar at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1996.[3] He is also a Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.[5]
Publications
Verene is the author of Vico's Science of Imagination[6] and Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge.[7]
Other publications written by Verene include:
- Vico’s Science of Imagination (Cornell, 1992)
- Hegel’s Recollection: A Study of Images in the Phenomenology of Spirit (SUNY, 1985)
- Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale, 1997)
- The Art of Humane Education (Cornell, 2002)
- The History of Philosophy: Including a List of 100 Great Philosophical Works from the Pre-Socratics to the Mid-Twentieth Century (Northwestern, 2008)
References
- ^ a b c d CV for Donald Verene, Emory University
- ^ a b c d Profile at Emory University
- ^ a b c People at the Center for Vico Studies, Emory University
- ^ http://www.ralston.ac/
- ^ http://www.lincei.it/modules.php?name=Soci&file=scheda&func=Soci_scheda&Id=502
- ^ Pennachetti, Leonard (June 1, 1986). "'Vico's Science of Imagination' by Donald Phillip Verene (Book Review)". Philosophy of the Social Sciences (0048-3931), 16 (2), p. 274.
- ^ Dodson, Kevin E (March 31, 1999). "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge". The Review of Metaphysics (0034-6632), 52 (3), p. 731.
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