Edward S. Casey
Edward S. Casey (born February 24, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American philosopher and university professor.
After studying at Yale University (BA 1961), he received his PhD from Northwestern University (1967) and has taught at Yale, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Stonybrook University, the University of California at Santa Barbara, the New School for Social Research, Emory University, and several other institutions.
He is currently Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Stony Brook University, New York. Casey was president of the American Philosophical Association (Eastern Division) and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at Stony Brook University. He conducts research in the terms of aesthetics, the philosophy of space and time, ethics, perception, and psychoanalytic theory. Casey is one of the most influential philosophers with regard to the philosophy of space.
Publications
- 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)
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