Donald Phillip Verene

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]

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:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "CV for Donald Verene". emory.edu. Emory University. Archived from the original on April 14, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d "Profile of Donald Verene". Archived from the original on February 15, 2012. at Emory University
  3. ^ a b c 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.