Postdoctoral research projects
Mahon O’Brien is a Teaching Fellow in the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. Dr O’Brien received his PhD from Boston University in 2010 with a thesis on authenticity in Heidegger. He has previously worked as a lecturer at Boston University and Suffolk University, Boston, and has held research posts at Boston University, the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. Dr O’Brien is the author of 1 monograph, Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement (London & New York: Continuum, 2011). Dr O’Brien’s current research project offers a new approach to the Heidegger Controversy and, in particular, examines the notion of an authentic historical community in Heidegger’s thought.
Danielle Petherbridge is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at University College Dublin. Her current research project, entitled Intersubjectivity, Power and Critique: Axel Honneth and the Project of Critical Theory studies the problem of intersubjectivity, particularly contrasting social-philosophical and phenomenological approaches and involves a book-length project on the social philosopher Axel Honneth specifically focusing on the problems of recognition, power, critique, and the intersubjective paradigm in Critical Theory. Most recently, she has held an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences New Ideas Grant to work on the topic of Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition with Dr. Luna Dolezal and Dr. Tim Mooney at University College Dublin. Her publications include The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth (Lexington Books, forthcoming); Axel Honneth: Critical Essays (2011); co-editor of Recognition, Work, Politics: New Perspectives in French Critical Theory (2007); and Contemporary Perspectives in Critical and Social Philosophy (2004). Dr Petherbridge is also co-ordinating editor of the journal Critical Horizons. Her research interests include Social and Political Philosophy, German Idealism, Phenomenology, Contemporary French Philosophy, Critical Theory.Thomas Szanto's research interests include: Husserl and Early Phenomenology, Philosophy of Mind and Cognition, Social Ontology, Collective Intentionality. He has worked as a lecturer at University of Vienna and the University of Klagenfurt (Austria), and held research positions at the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Science and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in philosophy at UCD. His recent research focuses on current reassessments of the group mind hypothesis and on the boundaries of the mental, both within the framework of analytic philosophy of mind and social ontology. At UCD he will collaborate with Dermot Moran on the project Discovering the “We”: The Phenomenology of Sociality (funded by the Irish Research Council). In particular, he will investigate the conception of “higher-order personalities” and social collectivities in early phenomenology (esp. Husserl, Scheler, Stein and Otaka).
Dylan Trigg is an IRCHSS post-doctoral research fellow in Philosophy at UCD, Dublin, working on a project entitled "Merleau-Ponty and the Prehistory of the Subject." He has previously held a CNRS/Volkswagen Stiftung post-doctoral position at Les Archives Husserl, École Normale Supérieure and The Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée, Paris. He received his PhD from the University of Sussex with a thesis on the materiality of memory. His research includes: phenomenology (especially Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Bachelard, Husserl, and Heidegger); the phenomenology of place (especially spatial phobias, memory and materiality, and the aesthetics of space); psychoanalysis (Freud and Lacan); and various aspects of bodily existence (intersubjectivity, identity, and affectivity). Dr Trigg is the author of three books:Body Parts (Paris: 3AM Press, 2012); The Memory of Place: a Phenomenology of the Uncanny (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012); and The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia and the Absence of Reason (New York: Peter Lang, 2006).He is currently completing a monograph entitled The World of Phobia: a Phenomenological Study.
Past postdoctoral fellows
Here are links to some of the present webpages of postdoctoral fellows we have hosted in the past:
Douglas Edwards: http://www.abdn.ac.uk/philosophy/nip/members/member?id=edwards
Jack Ritchie: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/philosophy/staff_ritchie.htm
John Callanan: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/philosophy/people/staff/academic/callanan/index.aspx
Tsarina Doyle: http://www.nuigalway.ie/philosophy/staff/web_pages/Tsarina_Doyle.html