Teaching Faculty

Comprising the UCD and TCD Faculties

For a list of Dublin Philosophy graduate students, see here.

Lilian Alweiss (Trinity)
Kant and post-Kantian continental philosophy, phenomenology and moral philosophy.
Email: alweissl@tcd.ie

Maria Baghramian (UCD)
Philosophy of Language, Contemporary American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine), Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.
Email: maria.baghramian@ucd.ie

David Berman (Trinity)
Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Russell, history of atheism.
Email: dberman@tcd.ie

Gerard Casey (UCD)
Aristotle, Aquinas, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Law, Libertarian Anarchism
Email: gerard.casey@ucd.ie

Joseph Cohen (UCD)
German Idealism, Post-German Idealism, Phenomenology, Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), Critical Theory.
Email: joseph.cohen@ucd.ie

Niall Connolly (Trinity)
Metaphysics, philosophical logic and the philosophy of language.
Email: niconnol@tcd.ie

Maeve Cooke (UCD)
The problem of validity (“truth”) in critical social theory, religion and politics, ideology, autonomy, evil
Email: Maeve.Cooke@UCD.ie

Christopher Cowley (UCD)
Ethical theory, applied ethics, and philosophy of value, broadly construed (political, religious, aesthetic).
Email: christopher.cowley@ucd.ie

Tim Crowley (UCD)
Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Email: tim.crowley@ucd.ie

Douglas Edwards (UCD)
IRCHSS post-doctoral researcher
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics, Metaethics and Epistemology.
Email: douglas.edwards@ucd.ie

Andrew Jorgensen (UCD)
Aporo research fellow
Philosophy of language
Email: andrew.jorgensen@ucd.ie

Richard Kearney (UCD)
Philosophy of Art and Imagination, particularly through a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective.
Email: kearneyr@bc.edu

James Levine (Trinity)
Twentieth Century analytic philosophy
Email: jlevine@tcd.ie

Timothy Mooney (UCD)
History of Philosophy, Whitehead and Process Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Thought, Phenomenology, Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Subjectivity.
Email: tim.mooney@ucd.ie

Dermot Moran (UCD)
Phenomenology, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Modern European Philosophy (Descartes, Kant, German Idealism), Relations Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
Email: dermot.moran@ucd.ie

Brian O'Connor (UCD)
Critical Theory, German Idealism, Contemporary Political Philosophy.
Email: brian.oconnor@ucd.ie

Paul O'Grady (Trinity)
Epistemology, History of analytical philosophy, Philosophy of religion
Email: pogrady@tcd.ie

Fran O'Rourke (UCD)
Philosophy of Being, Greek Philosophy, Aristotle (evolution in metaphysical and biological works: Poetics, Rhetoric: metaphysics of metaphor), Neoplatonism (Pseudo-Dionysius, Liber de Causis), Aquinas (especially Platonic/Neoplatonic sources), Heidegger
Email: orourke@ucd.ie

James O'Shea (UCD)
Kant, Hume, Sellars, Pragmaticism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind.
Email: jim.oshea@ucd.ie

Vasilis Politis (Trinity)
Ancient Philosophy (esp. Plato and Aristotle); Metaphysics, Ethics, Kant
Email: vpolitis@tcd.ie

Peter Simons (Trinity)
Metaphysics, Applied Ontology (e.g. in engineering, biology, business, geography), Logic Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Central European Philosophy (esp. in Austria and Poland), History of Logic (esp. Bolzano, Frege, Polish logic)
Note: Prof. Simons's Trinity webpage is under construction. See his Leeds webpage for bibliographical details.
Email: psimons@tcd.ie

Ross Skelton (Trinity)
Comparative Psychoanalysis
Email: rskelton@tcd.ie

Rowland Stout (UCD)
Philosophy of Mind and Action, Processes and Causation
Email: rowland.stout@ucd.ie