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Dorit Barchana-Lorand

Visiting Researcher

After teaching at several academic institutions in Israel and the United States, Dorit Barchana-Lorand currently serves as a senior lecturer at Kibbutzim College in Tel Aviv, where she recently completed a five-year term as head of theoretical and pedagogical studies in the Art Department. Dr Barchana-Lorand teaches courses in aesthetics, ethics, history of philosophy, visual literacy, and academic writing.

As a researcher in aesthetics, Dorit Barchana-Lorand’s research interests have evolved from the purely philosophical engagement with Kant’s aesthetics in her Oxford DPhil to exploring the intersection of art, education, and society. Following the publication of her three-volume monograph Introduction to Aesthetics (2024, in Hebrew, Israeli Open University), her newest work, Philosophical Questions in Art Education, was recently published by Bloomsbury in September 2025. She is currently writing on censorship from her perspective as an aesthetician.

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Maria Baghramian

Adjunct Full Professor

Maria Baghramian is an Adjunct Full Professor of American Philosophy at UCD School of Philosophy, and co-founder of UCD’s postgraduate Cognitive Science programme. She has held visiting posts in Harvard, MIT, University of Yerevan, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris and in various universities in China. She was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Harvard in 2013.

Maria Baghramian was elected to the Royal Irish Academy in 2010, the Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in June 2022, and was Highly Commended in the Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year Awards 2022. She currently holds a European Research Area (ERA) Chair at the American University of Armenia to direct a Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs.

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Dermot Moran

Adjunct Full Professor

Dermot Moran was Director of the International Centre of Newman Studies at UCD promoting the legacy of John Henry Cardinal Newman, first Rector of the Catholic University, Dublin, 1954-1858. He is now Chairperson of the Board of the UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions.

Dermot Moran is currently the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College and he also served as Chair of the Philosophy Department until June 2023. Previously, he held the full Professorship of Philosophy (Chair of Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin, from 1989 to his retirement.

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Former Faculty Members

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Rowland Stout

Full Professor

Rowland Stout was Head of the School of Philosophy at UCD between 2013 and 2015, and again between 2023 and 2025. He was also Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies from 2013 to 2023. In 2017 he set up the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life, of which he was Director for the next five years.

In March 2019 Rowland Stout was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. In addition to numerous papers, he has published four monographs, including a book on Passions in Action that will be published by OUP in 2025, and edited a collection on processes in experience and action for OUP.

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Fran O’Rourke

Emeritus Professor

Fran O’Rourke is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. He received his MA from University College Galway and studied at the universities of Vienna, Köln, Louvain (LicPhil), and Leuven, where he received his PhD summa cum laude.

Fran O’Rourke has held Fulbright and Onassis fellowships, and in 2003 was Visiting Research Professor at Marquette Uni­versity. He is former director of the UCD International Summer School for Irish Studies. Primarily interested in the tradition of classical metaphysics, he has published widely on Plato, Aristotle, Neoplatonism, Aquinas, and Heidegger.

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Gerard Casey

Emeritus Professor

Gerard Casey holds law degrees from the University of London (LLB) and UCD (LLM) as well as a primary degree in philosophy from University College Cork, an MA and PhD from the University of Notre Dame and the higher doctorate, DLitt, from the National University of Ireland. He was formerly Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America (Washington, D.C.), 1983–1986. He was a member of the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD) (Head from 2001 to 2006) from 1986 until he retired in December 2015.

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Teresa Iglesias

Emeritus Professor | Founding Director, UCD International Centre for Newman Studies

The Centre is named for theologian, philosopher, scholar and poet St. John Henry Newman (1801–1890). Newman was the founder (in 1854) and first Rector of the Catholic University of Ireland, a predecessor institution to University College Dublin. Newman is perhaps best known for his conversion from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism in 1845, as well as his volume of lectures The Idea of a University (1852) and autobiography Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1866). He was canonised as a saint of the Catholic Church in St. Peter's Square, Rome in 2019.

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Brendan Purcell

Emeritus Professor

Brendan Purcell entered the seminary in 1960 and was ordained a priest of the Archdiocese of Dublin in 1967. He did his BA at UCD and studied theology at the Lateran University in Rome, returning to UCD to teach Philosophy for nearly forty years until he retired in 2008.

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Patrick Masterson

Emeritus Professor | Former UCD President

Dr Masterson, a Professor of Philosophy who was elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in 1980, had been a member of the Governing Body for seventeen years prior to his appointment as President, 1986–1993. In December 1993 he relinquished the presidency to accept the post of Principal of the European University Institute in Florence, thus becoming the first President of UCD to vacate the office for another appointment.

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