Fran O'Rourke
Associate Professor of Philosophy
BA (NUI Galway), MA (NUI Galway), Lic Phil (Louvain), PhD (KU Leuven)
Interests: 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
E-mail: orourke@ucd.ie
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Publications
2012. Accepted for Publication. “Aristotle’s Political Anthropology”, 20 ms pages.
2011. “Joyce's Early Aesthetic”, Journal of Modern Literature, 22 ms pages.
2011. “Evolutionary Ethics: a Metaphysical Evaluation”, in What Happened in and to Moral Philosophy in the Twentieth Century?, Proceedings of conference in honour of Alasdair MacIntyre, Dublin, March 2009. 22 ms pages.
2011. “Human Nature and Destiny in Aristotle”, Human Destinies. Philosophical Essays in Memory of Gerald Hanratty. 25 ms pages.
2011. “La métaphysiqe de la métaphore chez Aristote” , Diotima 39, pp. 128 – 154 .
2010. “ Aristóteles y la metafísica de la metáfora”, Convivium 23 [Universitat de Barcelona], pp. 5 – 25 .
2010. “L’anthropologie politique d’Aristote”, Proceedings Athens Academy Conference, The Notion of Citizenship in Greek Philosophy, Alexandria, 4-6 March, 2010.
2008. “Joyce’s Thomist Masters”, Joyce in Context, John McCourt (ed.), Cambridge University Press, 320 – 331.
2008. “Aristotele e la metafisica della metafora”, Logos 2-3 [Università Federico II, Napoli], pp. 29 – 49 .
2007. “Beautiful Dangers of Being”, According to Your Word, Liam Bergin (ed.), Dublin : Four Courts Press, pp. 21 – 37.
2007. “James Joyce and the Greeks”, The Greek World Between the Age of Enlightenment and the Twentieth Century. Konstantinos A. Dimadis (ed.), Athens : Ellinika Grammata, Vol. 3, pp. 419 – 28.
2006. “ Philosophy and Poetry in Aristotle, Interpreting and Imitating Nature”, Vita Contemplativa. Essays in Honour of Demetrios N. Koutras, Athens University, 385 – 404 .
2005. Allwisest Stagyrite. Joyce’s Quotations from Aristotle.Dublin: National Library of Ireland, 59 pages.
2005. “Aristotle and the Metaphysics of Metaphor”, Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 21, John J. Cleary & Gary M. Gurtler (eds.), Leiden: Brill, pp. 155 – 177, 186 – 190.
2005. “Knowledge and Necessity in Aristotle”, Tyche-Ananke. Hasard et nécessité dans la philosophie grecque , Athens : Académie d’Athènes, pp. 155 – 171.
2005. Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas, Notre Dame University Press, pp. xvi, 300. (Reprint)
2004. “Aristotle and the Metaphysics of Evolution”, The Review of Metaphysics 58, pp. 3 – 59.
2004. “ Jacques Maritain and the Metaphysics of Plato”, Approaches to Metaphysics, William Sweet (ed.), Dordrecht : Kluwer, pp. 229 – 248.
2004. “Mountains and Metaphysics”, Cogito [UCD Philosophy Society], pp. 26 – 28.
2004. “O Aristotelês kai ê exelixê tôn eidôn” Philosophia (Athens Academy) 34, pp. 175 – 198.
2004. “Unity in Aquinas’ Commentary on the Liber de Causis”, Pensées de l’Un dans l’histoire de la Philosophie. Études en hommage au professeur Werner Beierwaltes , Jean-Marc Narbonne, Alfons Reckermann (eds.), Paris: Vrin, pp. 230 – 271.
2003. “Aquinas and Platonism”, Contemplating Aquinas, Fergus Kerr (ed.), London : SCM Press, pp. 247 – 279.
2003. “ Plato’s Approach to Being in the Theaetetus and Sophist, and Heidegger’s Attribution of Aristotelian Influence”, Diotima 31, pp. 47 – 58.
2003. “Wonder and Universality. Philosophy and Poetry in Aristotle”, On Aristotle’s Poetics and the Art of Rhetoric,Athens: Society for Aristotelian Studies “The Lyceum”, pp. 241 – 263.
2002. Trans. from Modern Greek, Dimitrios Koutras, “The Problem of Thought and Language in the Poem of Parmenides”, Essays on Ancient Greek and Byzantine Philosophy. Athens , pp. 11 – 19.
2001. “Via causalitatis; via negationis; via eminentiae”, Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, Band 11 [U-V],Basel: Schwabe Verlag, Cols. 1034 – 1038.
1992. “The Gift of Being: Aquinas and Heidegger”, At the Heart of the Real. Philosophical Essays in Honour of the Most Reverend Desmond Connell, Archbishop of Dublin, Fran O’Rourke (ed.) Dublin: Irish Academic Press, pp. 309 – 338.
1992. “Being and Non-Being in Pseudo-Dionysius”, The Relationship between Neoplatonism and Christianity, Thomas Finan & Vincent Twomey (eds.)Dublin: Four Courts, pp. 55 – 78.
Pseudo-Dionysius and the Metaphysics of Aquinas , Leiden: Brill, 1992, pp. xvi, 300.
1991. “Virtus Essendi: Intensive Being in Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas”, Dionysius 15, pp. 55 – 78.
1991. Trans. from Modern Greek, Vassilis Vassilikos, “Antiquity Revisited”, The Irish Review 10, pp. 61 – 69.
