Vere Claiborne Chappell

Vere Claiborne Chappell (22 March 1930 - 28 January 2019) was an American philosopher and scholar specializing in Modern philosophy, early modern philosophy, history of philosophy, philosophy of mind, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics.

Chappell was born in Rochester, New York in 1930, receiving his PhD from Yale University 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 on 28 January 2019 at the age of 88.

Education

* Yale University (1947–53) - BA (1951); MA (1953)
* University of Heidelberg, Universität Heidelberg (1953–54)
* Yale University (1954–57) - PhD (1958)

Career

* Yale University - Assistant in Instruction (1954–55); Instructor (1955–57)
* University of Chicago - Instructor (1957–61); Assistant Professor (1961–63); Associate Professor (1963–68); Professor (1968–70)
* North Central College - Visiting Professor (Summer 1965)
* Indiana University - Visiting Professor (1967)
* University of Illinois, Chicago - Visiting Professor (1967)
* University of Illinois, Urbana - Visiting Professor (1968)
* University of Notre Dame - 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

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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