- (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Early Modern philosophy (Locke, women philosophers), Scottish Enlightenment, history of ethics
- (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: Medieval and Renaissance philosophy, theories of the soul, reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West, Averroism
- (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: German idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jewish philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: ancient philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney: Heidegger, Derrida, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
- (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: history of German philosophy (esp. German idealism and its successors), Adorno
- (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: history of ideas, 18th Century Irish philosophy, history of feminist thought
- (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Kant, Hume, pragmatism, Sellars, history of analytic philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson: history of analytic philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson: Scottish Enlightenment (Reid, Hume)
The philosophers at the UCD School of Philosophy are engaged in an extremely diverse array of projects and activities. For further details of the research interests and accomplishments of individual faculty members, please see the staff profile pages linked below.
Our Faculty by Research Area
- (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: philosophy of mind, personal identity, persistence, social epistemology
- (opens in a new window)Daniel Deasy: philosophy of time (esp. theories of time and change), metaphysics of modality
- (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: perception, philosophy of mind
- (opens in a new window)Rowland Stout: processes, causation, metaphysics of mind
- (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson: language, mind, semantics
- (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: ontology, metaontology, fiction, fictional characters
- (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson: metaphysics of mind and perception, epistemology of perception, space and time
- (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), critical theory
- (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: critical theory
- (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: phenomenology, hermeneutics, continental aesthetics and philosophy of literature
- (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney: phenomenology, subjectivity and deconstruction (with particular reference to Heidegger, Derrida, Husserl and Merleau-Ponty)
- (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: German idealism, Adorno, psychoanalytic social criticism
- (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Kant
- (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: contemporary French and German philosophy, critical theory, phenomenology
- (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: philosophy of mind, personal identity, agency
- (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: metaphysics and theories of the soul
- (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney: phenomenology, embodiment, subjectivity
- (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: perception, philosophy of mind
- (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: phenomenology, embodiment, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness
- (opens in a new window)Rowland Stout: agency, rationality, emotions, metaphysics of mind
- (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson: philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, semantics
- (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, well-being, value of death
- (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson (Co-Director, (opens in a new window)UCD Cognitive Science Programme): perception and the senses, temporal experience, metaphysics of mind, philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences
- (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: history of ethics
- (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of criminal law, narrative, autobiography
- (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley
- (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: philosophy of translation and untranslatability, ethics, continental aesthetics and philosophy of literature
- (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: postcolonial, queer, and feminist theories of literature
- (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: ethics in Kant and Hume
- (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge (Director, Centre for Ethics in Public Life): medical humanities
- (opens in a new window)Rowland Stout: moral philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, well-being, value of death
- (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen
- (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: critical social theory, contemporary political philosophy, contemporary legal theory, autonomy and authority, protest and resistance, critical theorising in the Anthropocene
- (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: philosophy of criminal law
- (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: political philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: nationalism, memory
- (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: critical theory, contemporary political philosophy, social philosophy, philosophy of history, psychoanalytic social criticism
- (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: feminist philosophy and gender theory, aesthetic, cultural and social theory
- (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: social philosophy, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, critical phenomenology (esp. race, perception, affect, habit), recognition theory
- (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: history of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages (12th–16th Centuries)
- (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: Jewish philosophy
- (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: religion and democracy
- (opens in a new window)Daniel Deasy (Director, UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions)
- (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Buddhist thought
- (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Buddhism
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