Wes DeMarco

Teaching Professor, Philosophy

cdemarco@clarku.edu

Dr. DeMarco (Ph.D, Vanderbilt University 1991) has taught full time at Clark since 2007, serving as Lecturer since 2011 and Senior Lecturer since 2014. He has worked for three decades to develop a 'Neosocratic' philosophy that engages Western and Asian wisdom traditions, and which offers a fresh approach to the philosophical life, meaning, metaphysics, nature, and human agency and interagency. Central to this approach is how the lineaments of wisdom might be intimated in the questions by which it is sought and the qualifications of language and thought needed to articulate these. The approach hangs on a general theory of symbolization and the metaphysics of nature implied by this theory. Ethics and aesthetics follow in turn. Wes was awarded the Aristotle Prize by the Metaphysical Society of America in 1997. He was awarded the Frank Thompson Award for excellence in sleight of hand in 1977. He is ranked in three styles of martial art. Wes is a published poet and amateur composer and guitarist (Listen to his Soundcloud).
Degrees
- Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1991
- M.A., Catholic University of America, 1986
- B.A., Catholic University of America, 1981
Affiliated Department(s)
- Philosophy Department
Scholarly and Creative Works
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- Presentations
  
  "Rights in the Shadows of Virtue"
  
  Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and Politics
  
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  Providence College
  
  April 19-20
  
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  2024
  
  Sponsored by CASEP
  
  Wes DeMarco
- Presentations
  
  "A Dilemma for Wians: Comment on "Aristotle's Discovery of First Philosophy"
  
  Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy
  
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  College of the Holy Cross
  
  9/8/23
  
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  2023
  
  Sponsored by BACAP
  
  Wes DeMarco
- Presentations
  
  "Philosophical Dialogue and Metaphysical Fluency"
  
  72nd Annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of America
  
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  Marquette University
  
  March 24-27
  
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  2022
  
  Wes DeMarco
- Presentations
  
  "Gandhi's Concept of Truth"
  
  Clark's Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Gandhi's birth
  
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  Goddard
  
  October
  
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  2019
  
  Sponsored by Robert H. Goddard Library
  
  Charles DeMarco
- Presentations
  
  "An Environmental Ethic Worth Mulling"
  
  Northern New England Philosophical Association
  
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  College of the Holy Cross
  
  November
  
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  2019
  
  Charles DeMarco

Wes DeMarco

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Scholarly and Creative Works