UCD School of Philosophy

LicFil (Madrid), MA (NUI, Dublin), DPhil (Oxon)
Associate Professor

Email:  teresa.iglesias@ucd.ie

Interests:

• Moral Philosophy
• Biomedical Ethics
• Philosophy of Law
• Philosophy of the Person
• Plato
• Aristotle
• Aquinas
• Russell
• Wittgenstein
• J H Newman

Background

Teresa Iglesias was born in Salamanca, Spain, and became an Irish citizen in 1981. She received her secondary education at the Academia Fray Luis de Leon in her native town. She obtained her first degree in Philosophy from Madrid University and her Master research degree from University College Dublin, both degrees with a first class award.

She obtained her Doctorate in Philosophy in 1979 from Oxford University where she did her postgraduate research in philosophy of language for four years at Somerville College. Since 1986 she holds an academic permanent lectureship at the National University of Ireland, Dublin. Previously, she had been Research and Education Officer in the Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics, London. She was also a Visiting Fellow at New Hall, Cambridge University in 1980, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago, Committee of Social Thought in 1998. At University College Dublin, Department of Philosophy, she directs courses for undergraduates as well as postgraduate students. She is the Director of the  Newman Studies Centre, a research centre in the School of Philosophy, established by UCD in 2005.

DPhil Dissertation
Oxford University, on Linguistic Representation  - A Study on the Philosophies of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgenstein 1912-1922. The thesis director was Professor David Pears and its examiners Professors Anthony Kenny and James Griffin. The work is deposited at the Bodelian Library, Oxford.

Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
Cambridge University, under the direction of the late Professor G M Elizabeth Anscombe. Her work resulted in the publication of her well-known monographic study on “Russell’s Theory of Knowledge and Wittgenstein’s Earliest Writings” which appeared in  Synthese  60, 1984, pp 285-332.

Teaching

Some of the titles of courses that she teaches, or has taught, are the following: Introduction to Ethics with Plato’s Republic; The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle; Moral Foundations of Law; Aquinas Treatise on Law; Aquinas Ethical Writings; The Ethics of Homicide; Modern Moral Theories; Contemporary Bioethical Issues; Wittgenstein’s Tractatus; Wittgenstein on Ethics; Russell and Wittgenstein: Explaining the Proposition; Professional Medical Ethics; Main Philosophical Ideas of J H Newman and of Simon Weil.

Publications

A list of all publications, in chronological order, may be foundhere.

Books:

• A Study on Euthanasia and Clinical Practice  (Linacre, London, 1984)

• In Vitro Fertilisation and Justice  (Linacre, London, 1990),

• The Dignity of the Individual: Issues of Bioethics 
  and Law  (Pleroma, Dublin, 2001). 
  Sample chapter:  'Bedrock Truths and The Dignity of The Individual'

Online versions of some major articles:

'Conscience and Our Culture' 
First published in  Milltown Studies, No.49, 2002, as “Newman on Conscience and our Culture”. Shorter Revised Version: 2007.

Review of  Reasons for Action: A Critical Review of Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory  by John Finnis (Routledge, 1999) from  International Journal of Philosophical Studies  8:2, 1999, pp 238-246