Donald Phillip Verene

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Donald Phillip Verene (born October 24, 1937 [1] ) is an American philosophy professor and author. He is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy at Emory University. [2]

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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 St. Louis in 1964. [2]

Verene is married to Molly Black Verene. [1] Their son, Chris Verene is a photographer.

Career

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 and edits New Vico Studies . [2] His wife, Molly Black Verene, [1] serves as Assistant Director of the Center. [3]

He also serves on the Board of Visitors for Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah, Georgia. [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 (Cornell, 1992) [6] and Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge (Yale, 1997). [7]

Other publications written by Verene include:

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "CV for Donald Verene". emory.edu. Emory University. Archived from the original on April 14, 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Profile of Donald Verene". Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. at Emory University
  3. 1 2 3 People at the Center for Vico Studies, Emory University
  4. "Ralston College". ralston.ac. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  5. "Profile of Donald Philip Verene". lincei.it (in Italian). Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei . Retrieved April 28, 2018.
  6. 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.
  7. Dodson, Kevin E. (March 31, 1999). "Philosophy and the Return to Self-Knowledge" (book review). The Review of Metaphysics (0034-6632), 52 (3), p. 731.