Edward S. Casey | |
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 Casey in 2014 | |
| Born | February 24, 1939 Topeka, Kansas, US |
| Education | |
| Education | Northwestern University Yale University |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy,phenomenology |
| Institutions | Stony Brook University |
| Doctoral students | Adrian Johnston |
| Main interests | Contemporary continental philosophy,aesthetics,philosophical psychology,psychoanalytic theory,philosophy of mind |
| Notable ideas | Phenomenology of imagination,edges,the glance,place vs. space,phenomenology of remembering |
| Website | www |
Edward S. Casey (born February 24,1939) is an American philosopher and university professor. He has published several volumes on phenomenology,philosophical psychology,and the philosophy of space and place. His work is widely cited in contemporary continental philosophy. He is currently distinguished professor emeritus of philosophy at Stony Brook University in New York and distinguished visiting faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute. [1]
Contents
- Books
- Edited volumes
- Translated books
- Articles and chapters in print
- On memory
- On imagination
- Psychoanalytic theory
- Philosophy of art
- Place,time,and history
- On the glance
- On the edge
- On emotion
- Other
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Casey received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Northwestern University in 1967,after studying at Yale University (B.A.,1961). Prior to Stony Brook University,he taught at Yale,Pacifica Graduate Institute,and the University of California at Santa Barbara. He has held visiting appointments at Rutgers University,the New School for Social Research,Emory University,Amherst College,and Williams College.
Casey has cited as primary influences Immanuel Kant,the phenomenologists Maurice Merleau-Ponty,Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger,as well as his teachers William A. Earle at Northwestern University and Paul Ricoeur,with whom he studied at the Sorbonne over several years on a Fulbright Fellowship. [2]
Casey was president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) from 2009 to 2010,dean of the Faculty of Arts at Stony Brook University,and chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Stony Brook University. He conducts research in aesthetics,the philosophy of space and time,ethics,perception,psychoanalytic theory,and the philosophy of emotion.
Overall,Casey's philosophical work is broadly descriptive and attempts to bear out the nuances of basic phenomena and peri-phenomena of human experience that have been neglected in earlier philosophical accounts.
