Graduate students

The following are students presently enrolled at various stages of doctoral studies at Trinity or UCD.

Antonsen, Paal (Trinity)
Supervisor: Jim Levine
Topic: Manifestationism & Proof-Theoretic Semantics

Bravo Zamora, Damien (Trinity)
Supervisor: Lilian Alweiss

Cadwell, Stephen (UCD)        
Supervisor: TBC
Topic: A re-working of Arthur Danto's semantic theory of Art
Areas of interest/competence: Philosophy of Art, Contemporary Readings of Hegel, German Idealism, Philosophy of Religion, Ethics

Cashman, Aileen (UCD)          
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke       
Topic: Role of Religion in Society and Politics and the Definition and Social Impact of Secularisation     

Cherouvis, Stephanos (UCD)  
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: The Influence of Classical Thought on Contemporary Linguistics 

Cosgrave, Bernard (UCD)      
Supervisor: Tim Mooney          
The philosophies of Levinas and Habermas as the Basis for an Idea of the Good Society           

Cummins, Hugh (UCD)
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen        
Topic: Emmanuel Levinas and the Ethics of Homelessness   

Curtin, Thomas (Trinity)
Supervisor: David Berman     

Daini, Solange (UCD)
Supervisor: Fran O'Rourke      
Topic: Aristotle's epistemological notion of form: between a correspondence theory of truth and intentionality

Dolezal, Luna (UCD) 
Supervisor: Tim Mooney          
Topic: Shame, Belonging and (In)visibility: A Phenomenological Analysis of the Socially Shaped Body. (Funded by the IRCHSS)

Egan, Ruth (UCD)       
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: Thought Experiments and Modal Intuitions         

Ennis, Paul J. (UCD)       
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen        
Topic: Hermeneutics of the Real (Funded by The IRCHSS)

Forde, Nathaniel (Trinity)  
Supervisor: Peter Simons
Topic: Logical necessity and inferential practice[s]
E-mail: nforde@tcd.ie

Foley, Robert (UCD)  
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea          
Topic: Blindsight and the question of consciousness in the philosophy of mind. (Funded by the IRCHSS)

Foran, Lisa (UCD)      
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen        
Topic: Sur-viving through the other: translating in Derrida. (Funded by the IRCHSS)  

Furlan, Timothy (Trinity)
Supervisor: Lilian Alweiss       

Gallagher, Michael (UCD)       
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea          
Topic: The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy: some implications for the Philosophy of Science. (Funded by The IRCHSS)

Giannakakis, Vangelis (UCD)           
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor     
Topic: Social Pathologies and Cultural Discourse: An Inquiry into Honneth’s Notion of Recognition.      

Grant, Robert (Trinity)
Supervisor: Jim Levine

Halsall  Francis (UCD)
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor     
Topic: Niklas Luhmann and Aesthetics 

Hamilton, Richard (Trinity)
Supervisor: Paul O'Grady

Hogan  Sinead  (UCD)
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen        
Topic: The Question of Aesthetic Thinking & the Practice of Uncanny Rhetoric 

Horan, David (Trinity)  
Supervisor: Vasilis Politis
Topic: Self Examinations and Self knowledge in Plato's Charmides

Hyland, Sheena (UCD)           
Supervisor: Tim Mooney          
Topic: On the Phenomenology of Bodies through Ordinary Life

Inman, Ross (Trinity)  
Supervisor: Peter Simons
Topic: A Neo-Aristotelian/Scholastic Perspective on the Metaphysics of Material Objects

James, Seferin (UCD) 
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen
Topic: Rethinking hierarchy and différance in the philosophy of Jacques Derrida (funded by IRCHSS)

Kennedy Shanahan, Mary (UCD)        
Supervisor: Tim Mooney          
Topic: The Wisdom of Love at the Service of Love: Mediated Transcendence in Plato and Levinas       

King, David (Trinity)
Supervisor: Jim Levine

Kregzdyte, Ausra (Trinity)
Supervisor: Ross Skelton

Larsen, Peter (Trinity)
Supervisor: Vasilis Politis

Marini, Simone (UCD)
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Chisholm and Sellars on the Myth of the Given (Ad Astra scholar)

McGinley, Donall (Trinity)
Supervisor: Paul O'Grady

McGuire, John (UCD) 
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke       
Topic: After Nationalism? Popular sovereignty and political will in a post-national constellation. (Funded by the IRCHSS)

McHugh, Fergal (UCD)          
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: Late style in Hilary Putnam and Stanley Cavell. (Funded by the IRCHSS)

McNally, Thomas (Trinity)
Supervisor: Jim Levine

McNerney, John (UCD)          
Supervisor: Gerard Casey        
Topic: Towards an Economy of Communion: A Philosophical Investigation of the Person-and-Community-Centred Economics of Chiara Lubich    

Morris, David (UCD)       
Supervisor: Rowland Stout       
Topic: Pictorial Representation (Ad Astra scholar)

Morrissey, Brian (UCD)          
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: Addressing the challenge of relativism about science: Can relativism itself be used to posit an adaptive, evolving, responsive foundation for the sciences?

Murphy, Gwendoline (Trinity)
Supervisor: Vasilis Politis

Nakano, Yasuaki (Trinity)
Supervisor: Paul O'Grady

Nic Eodhasa, Emma (UCD)    
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: The Explanatory Gap     (Ad Astra scholar)

Nicholson, Anna (UCD)          
Supervisor: Maria Baghramian 
Topic: Understanding self-deception: A study of philosophical & empirical approaches to a paradox (Ad Astra scholar)

O'Connor, Andrew (UCD)      
Supervisor: Christopher Cowley           
Topic: Reacquiring a sense of meaning and the use of self-deception.    

O'Fearghail, Proinsias (Trinity)      
Supervisor: David Berman
Topic: George Berkeley, in particular his later works

Otten, Sarah (Trinity)
Supervisor: D|avid Berman
Topic: Justice: An examination of poverty in the writings of Adam Smith

Petherbridge, Danielle (UCD)  
Supervisor: Maeve Cooke       
Topic: Anthropology, Recognition, Self Realisation:  The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth         

Rodden, Martin (UCD)           
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor     
Topic: The Naturalizing of Philosophy in Spinoza and Feuerbach.          

Shanahan, Colm (UCD)          
Supervisor: Fran O'Rourke      
Topic: Reason: The Role of Virtue in Platonic Conception of Love        

Sharkey, Ciaran (UCD)           
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea
Topic: Truth and Naturalism: Rehabilitating Correspondence     

Smith, Andrew (UCD)
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor     
Topic: A comparative analysis of Beckett and Adorno  

Sorem, Erik (UCD)
Supervisor: Jim O'Shea/ Fran O'Rourke           
Topic: Is there a Solution for the Mind-Body Problem?

Stainsby, William (UCD)         
Supervisor: Gerard Casey        
Topic: Relationship between human freedom and natural inclinations as established by Thomas Aquinas.

Troy, Kieran (Trinity)
Supervisor: Paul O'Grady

Uljee, Rozemund (UCD)         
Supervisor: Brian O'Connor     
Topic: TBC

Urich, Georg (Trinity)
Supervisor: Vasilis Politis
Topic: Kant's account of acting from duty
E-mail: gurich at tcd.ie

Vaughan, Connell (UCD)        
Supervisor: Joseph Cohen        
The ambiguous event and the institutional theory of art 
Also: see here for his paper 'Ambiguous exhibitions, ambiguous institutions'