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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Philosophy Staff and Postdocs
Some of our school members following a research day in the school April 2023
From left to right: Gillian Johnston, Dr Meredith Plug, Professor Maria Baghramian, Dr Tatjana vonSolodkoff, Dr Peter Larsen, Dr Lisa Foran, Dr Melanie Altanian, Dr Georgios Petropoulos, Helena McCann, Dr Silvia Ivani, Dr Danielle Petherbridge, Professor Maeve Cooke, Dr Tim Mooney, Profesor Jim O'Shea, Dr Jenny Knell, Dr John Maguire, Dr Ruth Boeker, Dr Elma Unnsteinsson, Dr Graham Clay, Dr Patrick Dawson
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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Silvia Ivani
Teaching Fellow
Interests: philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology
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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 Wilson
Teaching Fellow
Interests: Philosophy of perception, temporal experience, philosophy of mind, psychology and the cognitive sciences, Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment
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