Mahon O'Brien
PhD (Boston)
IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
E-mail: mahon.obrien@ucd.ie
Research interests: Heidegger, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Existentialism, History of Philosophy.
I have worked as a lecturer at Boston University and Suffolk University, Boston and have had research posts at Boston University and the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. I am currently a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in philosophy at University College Dublin (funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences). My research project focuses on the notion of authenticity in Heidegger’s thought.
Publications
(Monograph) Heidegger and Authenticity: From Resoluteness to Releasement. Continuum (Forthcoming)
'The Future of the Human Person: Personhood, Heidegger and Technology' Comparative Philosophy, Vol. 2 (2), July 2011.
"Re-assessing the 'Affair': The Heidegger Controversy Revisited." The Social Science Journal, Vol. 47(1), (Jan 2010), pp. 1-20.
Webpage
http://ucd-ie.academia.edu/MahonOBrien