Philosophy Faculty
Some of our school members following a research day in the school April 2023
From left to right: Gillian Johnston, Dr Meredith Plug, Professor Maria Baghramian, Dr Tatjana vonSolodkoff, Dr Peter Larsen, Dr Lisa Foran, Dr Melanie Altanian, Dr Georgios Petropoulos, Helena McCann, Dr Silvia Ivani, Dr Danielle Petherbridge, Professor Maeve Cooke, Dr Tim Mooney, Profesor Jim O'Shea, Jenny Knell, Dr John Maguire, Dr Ruth Boeker, Dr Elma Unnsteinsson, Dr Graham Clay, Dr Patrick Dawson
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Maeve Cooke | Head of School
Full Professor | Head of Schoolmaeve.cooke@ucd.ie
Interests: critical social theory; political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, autonomy and authority, protest and resistance, critical theorizing in the Anthropocene
Maria Baghramian
Full Professormaria.baghramian@ucd.ie
Interests: Philosophy of language; contemporary American philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty and Quine); relativism and rationality; pragmatism; philosophy of mind; cognitive science.
Ruth Boeker
Assistant Professorruth.boeker@ucd.ie
interests: Early Modern Philosophy (especially Locke and his contemporaries), Early Modern Women Philosophers, Scottish Enlightenment Philosophy, History of Ethics, Personal Identity, Agency.
Dragos Calma
Associate ProfessorDragos.Calma@ucd.ie
Interests: History of Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages (12th-16th centuries), Metaphysics, theories of Soul, Neoplatonism, reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West, Averroism.
Joseph Cohen
Associate ProfessorJoseph.Cohen@ucd.ie
Interests: German Idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty), Hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), French contemporary philosophy (Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault), Critical Theory, Jewish Philosophy.
Christopher Cowley
Associate Professorchristopher.cowley@ucd.ie
Interests: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of criminal law
Tim Crowley
Assistant ProfessorTim.Crowley@ucd.ie
Interests: Ancient Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Political Philosophy
Daniel Esmonde Deasy
Associate Professordaniel.deasy@ucd.ie
Interests: Philosophy of time, especially theories of time and change; metaphysics of modality; philosophy of religion
Lisa Foran
Assistant Professorlisa.foran@ucd.ie
Interests: phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of translation, ethics, aesthetics, untranslatable, nationalism, memory
Silvia Ivani
Teaching Fellowsilvia.ivani@ucd.ie
Interests: philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology
Timothy Mooney
Associate Professortim.mooney@ucd.ie
Interests: phenomenology, the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida; Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.
Brian O'Connor
Full ProfessorBrian.OConnor@ucd.ie
Interests: Social philosophy; history of German philosophy (especially German idealism and its successors); philosophy of history; psychoanalytic social criticism.
Katherine O'Donnell
Professor in the History of Ideaskatherine.odonnell@ucd.ie
Interests: History of Ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland; feminist philosophy and gender theory; aesthetic, cultural and social theory; Buddhism in the West.
Jim O'Shea
Professorjim.oshea@ucd.ie
Interests: Kant, Hume, Pragmatism, Perception, Sellars, History of Analytic Philosophy
Danielle Petherbridge
Assistant ProfessorDanielle.Petherbridge@ucd.ie
Interests: Phenomenology, Social Philosophy, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; Critical Phenomenology (especially, race, perception, affect, habit); medical humanities; phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness; recognition theory
Julie Reshe
Visiting Associate ProfessorInterests: existential philosophy and existential therapy, psychoanalysis, and depressive realism
Rowland Stout
Full ProfessorRowland.Stout@ucd.ie
Interests: Philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind.
Elmar Unnsteinsson
Assistant ProfessorElmar.Unnsteinsson@ucd.ie
Interests: Philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, semantics, history of analytic philosophy
Tatjana vonSolodkoff
Assistant ProfessorTatjana.vonsolodkoff@ucd.ie
Interests: Ontology, Metaontology, Fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, value of death