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).
Wes DeMarco
Teaching Professor, Philosophy
- About
- Scholarly and creative works
Degrees
- Ph.D. in , Vanderbilt University, 1991
- M.A. in , Catholic University of America, 1986
- B.A. in , Catholic University of America, 1981
Affiliated Department
Philosophy
Scholarly and creative works
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“The Blur of Virtuality”
2025 meeting of the Metaphysical Society of AmericaAtlanta, GAMarch2025Sponsored by MSA -
“Whither the Sociopolitical Animal? What Aristotle Can Teach Marx About Dialectic.”
2025 Meeting of the Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and PoliticsProvidence, RIMarch2025Sponsored by CASEP -
Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 38(1), 2024.
Chapter: “Comment on Wians, ‘Aristotle’s Discovery of First Philosophy’”Published by Brill2024 -
“Rights in the Shadows of Virtue”
Center for Contemporary Aristotelian Studies in Ethics and PoliticsProvidence CollegeApril 19-202024Sponsored by CASEP -
“A Dilemma for Wians: Comment on “Aristotle’s Discovery of First Philosophy”
Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient PhilosophyCollege of the Holy Cross9/8/232023Sponsored by BACAP -
“Philosophical Dialogue and Metaphysical Fluency”
72nd Annual meeting of the Metaphysical Society of AmericaMarquette UniversityMarch 24-272022 -
“An Environmental Ethic Worth Mulling”
Northern New England Philosophical AssociationCollege of the Holy CrossNovember2019 -
“Gandhi’s Concept of Truth”
Clark’s Celebration of the 150th Anniversary of Gandhi’s birthGoddardOctober2019Sponsored by Robert H. Goddard Library