School of Philosophy Staff
Administrative Staff
Head of School: Prof. Maria Baghramian
Email: maria.baghramian@ucd.ie
Tel.: +353 (1) 716 8125
Fax: +353 (1) 716 8258
Graduate Administration: Helen Kenny
Email: helen.kenny@ucd.ie
Tel.: +353 (1) 716 8186
Fax: +353 (1) 716 8258
Undergraduate Administration: Margaret Brady
Email: margaret.brady@ucd.ie
Tel.: +353 (1) 716 8267
Fax: +353 (1) 716 8258
Teaching Staff & Their Areas of Interest
- Maria Baghramian, BA (QUB), PhD (Dub), MRIA, Associate Professor
Philosophy of Language, Contemporary American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine), Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science.
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Email: maria.baghramian@ucd.ie - Gerard Casey, BA, MA (Notre Dame), PhD (Notre Dame), LLB (London), LLM, Associate Professor
Aristotle, Aquinas, Philosophy of Music, Philosophy of Law, Libertarian Anarchism
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Email: gerard.casey@ucd.ie - Joseph Cohen, BA (York, Canada), MA (Paris), Ph.D. (Paris/Caen) Lecturer
German Idealism (Kant to Hegel), Post-German Idealism (Kierkegaard to Nietzsche), Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), Critical Theory.
Email:joseph.cohen@ucd.ie - Christopher Cowley, BA (London), MA (Montréal), PhD (Bristol). Lecturer
Ethical theory, applied ethics, and philosophy of value, broadly construed (political, religious, aesthetic).
Email:christopher.cowley@ucd.ie - Tim Crowley, BA, MLitt (NUI), DPhil (Oxon) Lecturer
Ancient Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy, Philosophy of Religion
Email: tim.crowley@ucd.ie - Richard Kearney, MA (McGill), PhD (Paris) Visiting Professor
Philosophy of Art and Imagination, particularly through a hermeneutic and phenomenological perspective.
Email: kearneyr@bc.edu - Timothy Mooney, MA (NUI), Phd (Essex), Senior Lecturer
History of Philosophy, Whitehead and Process Philosophy, Contemporary Continental Thought, Phenomenology, Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Subjectivity.
Email: tim.mooney@ucd.ie - Dermot Moran, BA (NUI), MA (Yale), MPhil (Yale), PhD (Yale), MRIA, Professor, Chair of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic)
Phenomenology (especially Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), Medieval Philosophy (especially Christian Neoplatonism, John Scottus Eriugena, Nicholas of Cusa), The History of Twentieth-Century Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science (Intentionality, Consciousness, Embodiment, Empathy), Modern European Philosophy (Descartes, Kant, German Idealism), Relations Between Analytic and Continental Philosophy
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Email: dermot.moran@ucd.ie - Brian O'Connor, MA, DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor
Critical Theory, German Idealism, Contemporary Social Theory.
Email:brian.oconnor@ucd.ie - Fran O'Rourke MA, LicPhil (Louvain), PhD (Leuven), Associate Professor
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, BA (Georgetown), MA (North Carolina), PhD (North Carolina), Senior Lecturer
Kant, Hume, Sellars, Pragmatism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind.
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Email:jim.oshea@ucd.ie - Rowland Stout, MA (Oxon) DPhil (Oxon), Associate Professor
Philosophy of Mind and Action, Processes and Causation
Email: rowland.stout@ucd.ie
Postdoctoral and teaching Fellows:
- Áine Kelly, PhD (Nottingham), IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
Contemporary American Philosophy (especially Rorty and Cavell), Epistemology, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Literature
Email:aine.kelly@ucd.ie - Mahon O’Brien, MA (Cork), PhD (Boston), Teaching and Research Fellow
Heidegger, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism, History of Philosophy
Email:mahon.obrien@ucd.ie - Cathal Ó Madagáin, PhD (Toronto), Teaching and Research Fellow
Email:cathal.omadagain@ucd.ie
- Danielle Petherbridge, BA, BA Hons (UM), PhD, IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
German Idealism, Social Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Contemporary French Philosophy (especially Foucault), Critical Theory (especially Honneth)
Email:danielle.petherbridge@ucd.ie - Thomas Szanto, PhD (Vienna), Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Phenomenology, philosophy of mind and social ontology
Email: thomas.szanto@ucd.ie - Dylan Trigg, PhD (Sussex), IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
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)
Email: dylan.trigg@ucd.ie
Visiting Professors 2012-2013
- Professor Zhang Liqing, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Political Science and Law of Beijing, has received research funding from the China Scholarship Council to spend a year as a visiting scholar in the UCD School of Philosophy and to work with Professor Gerard Casey on topics in philosophy of law.
- Professor John Dillon is Emeritus Fellow at the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin.
Founding Director of Newman Research Centre:
- Teresa Iglesias, LicFil (Madrid), MA, DPhil (Oxon), Professor Emeritus
Moral Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of the Person, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Russell, Wittgenstein, JH Newman,
Email: teresa.iglesias@ucd.ie
Emeritus Faculty
- Brendan Purcell, MA, STL (Lateran, Rome), PhD, Senior Lecturer
Evolution: myth or theory?, Human origins, Palaeolithic-Neolithic symbolizations of order, Bernard Lonergan's Philosophy of Consciousness, Eric Voegelin's Philosophy of History, Theory of the Human Person and Interpersonal Relations.
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Email: brendanpur@hotmail.com