CURRICULUM VITAE
Vere Claiborne Chappell
Birth
Rochester, New York on March 22, 1930
Education
Rochester public schools (1935-47)
Yale University (1947-53) - BA (1951); MA (1953)
Universität Heidelberg (1953-54)
Yale University (1954-57) - PhD (1958)
Awards and Honors
Yale University - University Fellowship (1951-52); Tew Prize (1952); Junior Sterling Fellowship (1952-53)
US Government - Fulbright Fellowship (1953-54: Heidelberg, Germany)
University of Chicago - Research leaves (1963: Chicago; 1970: Los Angeles)
National Endowment for the Humanities - Fellowship (1970: London)
Who's Who in America Biographee - 37th edition (1972) et seqq.
National Endowment for the Humanities - Research Tools Grant (1976)
University of Massachusetts - Sabbatical leaves (1978: Paris; 1984: Rome; 1991: Oxford and Amherst)
Massachusetts Foundation for Humanities - Grant (with Sidney Sufrin) (1980-81)
University of Massachusetts - Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Fellowship (1981-82)
United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia - Grant to lecture in China (1986)
Teaching Positions
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)
Notre Dame University - Visiting Professor (1969)
University of Southern California - Visiting Professor (1969)
University of Massachusetts - Professor (1970- )
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)
Departmental Service Positions
Director of Undergraduate Studies (1981- )
Schedule Officer (1990- )
Curriculum Committee (1981- ) (Chairman 1990- )
Graduate Admissions Committee (1978-83; 1989-92; 1994-98) (Chairman 1978-83)
Graduate Placement Officer (1982-83; 1984-85)
Personnel Committee (1978- ) (Chairman 1996-97; 2000-2002)
Speakers Committee (1986-91; 1994-96; 2000-2002) (Chairman 1987-90)
Administrative Positions
University of Chicago - Acting Chairman of Philosophy (1964-65)
University of Massachusetts - Head of Philosophy (1970-74)
University of Massachusetts - Acting Dean of the Graduate School (1974-76)
University of Massachusetts - Acting Associate Provost (1974-77); Associate Provost (1977-78)
University of Massachusetts - Co-director, Center for Humanities Computing (1982)
Editorial Positions
Review of Metaphysics - Managing Editor (1954-56)
Ethics - Assistant Editor (1958-61)
Philosophical Quarterly - Assistant Treasurer (1959-69)
Random House-A. A. Knopf - Consulting Editor (1963-74)
Thoemmes Dictionary of Seventeenth-Century Philosophers - Editorial Consultant (1995-2000)
Professional Service Positions
American Philosophical Association -
Program Committee (Western Division Chairman) (1969, 1970)
Committee on Research (1969-74)
Committee on Placement (1972-75)
Conference of Chairmen (Eastern Division Chairman) (1972-74)
Committee on Research and Publications (Chairman) (1974-84)
Executive Committee (Eastern Division) (1981-84, 2000-2003)
Program Advisory Committee (Eastern Division) (1987-90)
Center for High School Philosophy -
Administrative Committee (Co-Chairman) (1972-74)
Summer Institute for Teachers (Sponsored by NEH) (1976)
Council for Philosophical Studies - Council Member (1973-78)
Philosopher's Index - Editorial Board (1995- )
Philosophy Research Archives - Editorial Board (1974-85)
Teaching Philosophy - Editorial Board (1974- )
Philosophy Documentation Center - Editorial Board (1978- )
American Council of Learned Societies - Fellowship Panel (1974-80)
N Y State Education Department - Philosophy Rating Committee (1976- ) (Chairman 1990- )
Council for International Exchange of Scholars - Advisory Committee (1978-81)
National Research Council - Commission on Human Resources Panel (1981-84)
IIT-Exxon Engineering Ethics Project - Advisory Panel (1981-85)
Chief Publications
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).
Whitehead's Metaphysics. Review of Metaphysics 13 (1959-60) 278-304.
Sameness and Change. Philosophical Review 69 (1960) 351-62.
Malcolm on Moore. Mind 70 (1961) 417-25.
Whitehead's Theory of Becoming. Journal of Philosophy 58 (1961) 516-28.
Time and Zeno's Arrow. Journal of Philosophy 59 (1962) 197-213.
Myself and Others. Analysis 23 Supp. (1962-63) 50-57.
The Concept of Dreaming. Philosophical Quarterly 13 (1963) 193-213.
Ego and Person: Phenomenology or Analysis. Monist 49 (1965) 18-27.
Stuff and Things. Aristotelian Society Proceedings 71 (1970-71) 61-76.
Hume on What There Is. Reason and Reality, ed. by G. Vesey (London: Macmillan, 1972) 88-98.
Matter. Journal of Philosophy 70 (1973) 679-96.
Locke, Berkeley and Hume. New Trends in Philosophy, ed. by A. Kasher and S. Lappin. 2 vols. (Tel Aviv: Yachdav United, 1982-85) II, 189-216.
The Theory of Ideas. Essays on Descartes' Meditations, ed. by A. O. Rorty (Berkeley: University of Cali- fornia Press, 1986) 177-98.
The Theory of Sensations. The Philosophy of Thomas Reid, ed. by M. Dalgarno and E. Matthews (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1989) 49-63.
Locke and Relative Identity. History of Philosophy Quarterly 6 (1989) 69-83.
Locke on the Ontology of Matter, Living Things and Persons. Philosophical Studies 60 (1990) 19-32.
Locke's Theory of Ideas. The Cambridge Companion to Locke, ed. by Vere Chappell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994) 26-55.
Locke on the Intellectual Basis of Sin. Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (1994) 197-207.
L'homme cartésien. Descartes. Ojecter et répondre, ed. by Jean-Marie Beyssade and Jean-Luc Marion (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France,
1994) 403-26.
Descartes's Compatibilism. Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Cartesian Metaphysics, ed. by John Cottingham (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1994) 177-90.
Locke on the Freedom of the Will. Locke's Philosophy: Content and Context, ed. by G.A.J. Rogers (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) 101-21.
Free Willing. Philosophical Studies 77 (1995) 273-81.
Determinism and Human Freedom, with Robert Sleigh and Michael della Rocca. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, ed. by
Michael Ayers and Daniel Garber (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997) 1195-1270.
Descartes's Ontology. Topoi 16 (1997) 111-27.
Locke on the Suspension of Desire. Locke Newsletter 29 (1998) 23-38.
Self-detemination. Rethinking the History of Early Modern Philosophy, ed. by Christia Mercer and Eileen O'Neill (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming).
Work in Progress
Moral Agency in Early Modern Thought.