Edward S. Casey
Edward S. Casey (born February 24, 1939 in Topeka , Kansas) is an American philosopher and university professor.
After studying at Yale (BA 1961), he received his PhD from Northwestern University (1967) and has taught at Yale University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions.
He is Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University , New York. Edward Casey was President of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Stony Brook University. He researches aesthetics, the philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception and psychoanalytic theory.
Edward S. Casey is considered to be one of the most influential philosophers on the philosophy of space.
Works and publications
- Place descriptions: landscape painting and cartography. 2006
- The World at a Glance (Indiana, 2007)
- Earth-Mapping: Artists Reshaping Landscape (Minnesota, 2005)
- Representing Place: Landscape Painting and Maps (Minnesota, 2002)
- The Fate of Place: A Philosophical History (California, 1996)
- Getting Back into Place: Toward a Renewed Understanding of the Place-World (Indiana, 1993; 2nd edition, 2009)
- Remembering: A Phenomenological Study (Indiana, 1987; 2nd edition, 2000)
- Imagining: A Phenomenological Study (Indiana, 2000, 2nd edition)
- Spirit and Soul: Essays in Philosophical Psychology (Spring Publications, 1991)
Secondary literature
- Donald A. Landes, Azucena Cruz-Pierre: Exploring the Work of Edward S. Casey: Giving Voice to Place, Memory, and Imagination (Bloomsbury Studies in American Philosophy). 2013
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| SURNAME | Casey, Edward S. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American philosopher and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Topeka , Kansas |