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Vere Claiborne Chappell ( March 22, 1930 – January 28, 2019) was an American philosopher and scholar specializing in early modern philosophy, ^[1] history of philosophy, philosophy of mind and action, and metaphysics. ^[2]

Chappell was born in Rochester, New York, in 1930, receiving his PhD from Yale University in 1958. ^[3]

In 2008 a collection of essays was published in honor of his work. ^[4]

Chappell died in North Adams, Massachusetts, on January 28, 2019, at the age of 88. ^[3]

Education

• Yale University (1947–53) - BA (1951); MA (1953)
• 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)
• 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