Vere Claiborne Chappell ( March 22, 1930 – January 28, 2019) was an American
philosopher
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and scholar specializing in
early modern philosophy,
history of philosophy
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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 January 28, 2019, at the age of 88.
Education
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Yale University (1947–53) - BA (1951); MA (1953)
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Universität Heidelberg
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(1953–54)
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Yale University (1954–57) - PhD (1958)
Career
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Yale University - Assistant in Instruction (1954–55); Instructor (1955–57)
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University of Chicago - Instructor (1957–61); Assistant Professor (1961–63); Associate Professor (1963–68); Professor (1968–70)
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North Central College - Visiting Professor (Summer 1965)
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Indiana University - Visiting Professor (1967)
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University of Illinois, Chicago - Visiting Professor (1967)
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University of Illinois, Urbana
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- Visiting Professor (1968)
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University of Notre Dame - Visiting Professor (1969)
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University of Southern California - Visiting Professor (1969)
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University of Massachusetts Amherst - Professor (1970–2006); Emeritus (2006–)
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Smith College
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- Visiting Professor (1973; 1974)
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Mount Holyoke College
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- Visiting Professor (1982; 1983; 1985; 1988; 1990; 1991; 1992)
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Università per Stranieri di Siena - Exchange Professor (1993)
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Amherst College
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- 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
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* Willis, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Willis, Kansas, a city
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(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
American philosophers of mind
Yale University alumni
Yale University faculty
University of Chicago faculty
University of Massachusetts Amherst faculty
Locke scholars