Donald Phillip Verene is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Metaphysics and Moral Philosophy and director of The Institute for Vico Studies at Emory University. His recent books include Moral Philosophy and the Modern World (2013), Vico's New Science (2015), Metaphysics and the Modern World (2016), and James Joyce and the Philosophers at Finnegans Wake (2016). He has been Visiting Fellow at Oxford University and is Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome.
