Faculty
Philosophy Faculty
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
Assistant 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
Associate 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