Rowland Stout
Full Professor | Head of School
Interests: Philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind.
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Academic Faculty
Maria Baghramian
Full Professor
Interests: Philosophy of language; contemporary American philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine); relativism and rationality; pragmatism; philosophy of mind; cognitive science.
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Ruth Boeker
Associate Professor
interests: Early Modern Philosophy (especially Locke and his contemporaries), Early Modern Women Philosophers, Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy, History of Ethics, Personal Identity, Agency.
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Dragos Calma
Associate Professor
Interests: History of Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries), Metaphysics, theories of Soul, Neoplatonism, reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West, Averroism.
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Joseph Cohen
Associate Professor
Interests: German Idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), Critical Theory, Jewish Philosophy.
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Maeve Cooke
Full Professor
Interests: critical social theory; political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, autonomy and authority, protest and resistance, critical theorizing in the Anthropocene
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Christopher Cowley
Associate Professor
Interests: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of criminal law
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Tim Crowley
Assistant Professor
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy
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Daniel Esmonde Deasy
Associate Professor | Director, UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions
Interests: Philosophy of time, especially theories of time and change; metaphysics of modality; philosophy of religion
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Lisa Foran
Assistant Professor
Interests: phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of translation, ethics, aesthetics, untranslatable, nationalism, memory
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Tim Mooney
Associate Professor
Interests: phenomenology, the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida; Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Brian O’Connor
Full Professor
Interests: Social philosophy; history of German philosophy (especially German idealism and its successors); philosophy of history; psychoanalytic social criticism.
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Katherine O’Donnell
Professor
Interests: History of Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland; feminist philosophy and gender theory; aesthetic, cultural and social theory; Buddhism in the West.
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Jim O’Shea
Professor
Interests: Kant, Hume, Pragmatism, Perception, Sellars, History of Analytic Philosophy
Danielle Petherbridge
Associate Professor | Director, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life
Interests: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Critical Phenomenology (especially, race, perception, affect, habit); medical humanities; phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness; recognition theory
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Elmar Unnsteinsson
Assistant Professor | Ad Astra Fellow
Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, semantics, history of analytic philosophy
Tatjana von Solodkoff
Assistant Professor
Interests: Ontology, Metaontology, Fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, value of death
Keith A. Wilson
Assistant Professor
Interests: Philosophy of mind, perception, temporal experience, philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences, Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment
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Patrick Dawson
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Temporal metaphysics, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics.
Project: Hard Presentism – Truth, Physics, and Metaphysics in a Three-Dimensional World
Rory Harder
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Philosophy of language and mind, joint action and communication.
Project: Communication and Institution
Silvia Ivani
Research Associate
Interests: Philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology.
Project: Challenges in Public Engagement and Science Communication – The Philosophy of Fruitful Interactions
Dervla MacManus
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Gender and feminism in architectural practice, representations of architecture and their relationship to architectural experience.
Project: Gender Equity in Irish Architecture – Where are Ireland’s Women Architects?
Francesco Quatrini
Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
Interests: Early modern religious dissent and the development of political concepts.
Project: European Women and Religious Dissent (EuWoRD) – The Advent of Modernity and the Democratic Public Sphere
Professional Staff
Gillian Johnston
School Manager and Graduate Administrator
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