Vere Claiborne Chappell (22 March 1930 - 28 January 2019) was an American philosopher and scholar specializing in

early modern philosophy Early modern philosophy (also classical modern philosophy)Richard Schacht, ''Classical Modern Philosophers: Descartes to Kant'', Routledge, 2013, p. 1: "Seven men have come to stand out from all of their counterparts in what has come to be known ...

, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and

metaphysics Metaphysics is the branch of philosophy that studies the fundamental nature of reality, the first principles of being, identity and change, space and time, causality, necessity, and possibility. It includes questions about the nature of conscio ...

. Chappell was born in

Rochester, New York Rochester () is a city in the U.S. state of New York, the seat of Monroe County, and the fourth-most populous in the state after New York City, Buffalo, and Yonkers, with a population of 211,328 at the 2020 United States census. Located in W ...

in 1930, receiving his PhD from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...

in 1958. In 2008 a collection of essays was published in honor of his work.Paul Hoffman, David Owen, and Gideon Yaffe (Editors)
Contemporary perspectives on early modern philosophy: essays in honor of Vere Chappell.
Broadview Press, 2008; Chappell died in

North Adams, Massachusetts North Adams is a city in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its population was 12,961 as of the 2020 census. Best known as the home of the largest contemporary ...

on 28 January 2019 at the age of 88.

Education

(1947–53) - BA (1951); MA (1953) * Universität Heidelberg (1953–54) *

(1954–57) - PhD (1958)

Career

- Assistant in Instruction (1954–55); Instructor (1955–57) *

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its main campus is located in Chicago's Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood. The University of Chic ...

- Instructor (1957–61); Assistant Professor (1961–63); Associate Professor (1963–68); Professor (1968–70) *

North Central College North Central College is a private college in Naperville, Illinois. It is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and has nearly 70 areas of study in undergraduate majors, minors, and programs through 19 academic departments organized in thre ...

- Visiting Professor (Summer 1965) *

Indiana University Indiana University (IU) is a system of public universities in the U.S. state of Indiana. Campuses Indiana University has two core campuses, five regional campuses, and two regional centers under the administration of IUPUI. *Indiana Universi ...

- Visiting Professor (1967) *

University of Illinois, Chicago The University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) is a public research university in Chicago, Illinois. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois sy ...

- Visiting Professor (1967) * University of Illinois, Urbana - Visiting Professor (1968) *

University of Notre Dame The University of Notre Dame du Lac, known simply as Notre Dame ( ) or ND, is a private Catholic university, Catholic research university in Notre Dame, Indiana, outside the city of South Bend, Indiana, South Bend. French priest Edward Sorin fo ...

- Visiting Professor (1969) * University of Southern California - Visiting Professor (1969) * University of Massachusetts Amherst - Professor (1970–2006); Emeritus (2006–) * Smith College - Visiting Professor (1973; 1974) * Mount Holyoke College - Visiting Professor (1982; 1983; 1985; 1988; 1990; 1991; 1992) * Foreigners University of Siena, Università per Stranieri di Siena - Exchange Professor (1993) * Amherst College - Visiting Professor (1996)

Publications

Books

* ''The Philosophy of Mind'', edited with Introduction (Prentice-Hall, 1962); new ed. (Dover, 1981). * ''The Philosophy of David Hume'', edited with Introduction (Modern Library, 1963). * ''Ordinary Language'', edited with Introduction (Prentice-Hall, 1964); new ed. (Dover, 1981). * ''Hume'', edited with Introduction (Anchor Books, 1966). * ''Twenty-five Years of Descartes Scholarship, 1960-1984: A Bibliography'', with Willis Doney (Garland, 1987). * ''Essays on Early Modern Philosophers: From Descartes and Hobbes to Newton and Leibniz'', edited with Introductions. 12 Vols. (Garland, 1992). * ''The Cambridge Companion to Locke'', edited with Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1994). * ''Descartes's Meditations'', edited with Introduction (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997). * ''Locke'', edited with Introduction (Oxford University Press, 1998). * ''Hobbes and Bramhall on Liberty and Necessity'', edited with Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 1999).

References

External links

Umass Biography page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chappell, Vere Claiborne 1930 births 2019 deaths 20th-century American philosophers Scholars of modern philosophy Philosophers of mind Yale University alumni Yale University faculty University of Chicago faculty University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty Locke scholars