Donald Phillip Verene | |
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Born | October 24, 1937 |
Academic background | |
Education | Washington University in St. Louis (PhD) |
Thesis | An Examination of Ernst Cassirer's Philosophy of Symbolic Forms (1964) |
Academic work | |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
Institutions | Emory University |
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]
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.
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]
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: