Professor Dermot Moran - I scáth a chéile a mhaireann na daoine - We live in each others’ shadows
Professor Dermot Moran’s address to the BA graduating class focussed on the joy of a life-long journey of learning and the community of scholarship. In commenting on Ireland’s expectations, he told the graduates, “Our education is our preparation. This is where we will be required to draw on our knowledge, our critical skills, our creative and imaginative drives, our intellect, and our imaginations. We need to collectively to imagine a better future for this country.”
Dermot Moran is Professor of Philosophy (Logic and Metaphysics) in the UCD School of Philosophy. His research is primarily situated in three areas: Contemporary European Philosophy, specifically phenomenology; the History of Philosophy, especially the interrelations between analytic and Continental approaches in twentieth-century philosophy; and Medieval Philosophy. In April 2009, he was elected President of the Programme Committee for the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy scheduled for Athens in 2013.