Rowland Stout
Full Professor | Head of School
Interests: philosophy of agency, moral philosophy, the nature of rationality, emotions, processes, causation, and the metaphysics of mind
Faculty
Ruth Boeker
Professor
Interests: Early Modern philosophy (especially Locke and his contemporaries), Early Modern women philosophers, Scottish Enlightenment philosophy, history of ethics, personal identity, agency
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Dragos Calma
Associate Professor
Interests: history of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages (12th–16th centuries), metaphysics, theories of the soul, Neoplatonism, reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West, Averroism
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Joseph Cohen
Associate Professor
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
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Maeve Cooke
Full Professor
Interests: critical social theory, political philosophy, philosophy of law, philosophy of religion, autonomy and authority, protest and resistance, critical theorizing in the Anthropocene
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Christopher Cowley
Associate Professor
Interests: ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of criminal law
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Tim Crowley
Assistant Professor
Interests: ancient philosophy, history of philosophy, political philosophy
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Daniel Esmonde Deasy
Associate Professor | Director, UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions
Interests: philosophy of time, especially theories of time and change; metaphysics of modality; philosophy of religion
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Lisa Foran
Assistant Professor
Interests: phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of translation, ethics, aesthetics, untranslatable, nationalism, memory
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Tim Mooney
Associate Professor
Interests: phenomenology; the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida; Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
Brian O’Connor
Full Professor
Interests: social philosophy; history of German philosophy, especially German idealism and its successors; philosophy of history; psychoanalytic social criticism
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Katherine O’Donnell
Professor
Interests: history of ideas in Eighteenth-century Ireland; feminist philosophy and gender theory; aesthetic, cultural and social theory; Buddhism in the West
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James O’Shea
Professor
Interests: Kant, Hume, pragmatism, perception, Sellars, history of analytic philosophy
Danielle Petherbridge
Associate Professor | Director, UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life (CEPL)
Interests: phenomenology; social philosophy; subjectivity and intersubjectivity; critical phenomenology (esp. race, perception, affect, habit); medical humanities; phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness; recognition theory
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Elmar Unnsteinsson
Assistant Professor
Interests: philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, semantics, history of analytic philosophy
Tatjana von Solodkoff
Assistant Professor
Interests: ontology, metaontology, fiction, fictional characters, fictional names, value of death
Keith A. Wilson
Assistant Professor | Co-Director, UCD Cognitive Science Programme
Interests: philosophy of perception, temporal experience, mind and representation; philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences; Thomas Reid and the Scottish Enlightenment
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Angelo Bottone
Lecturer, Dublin Business School
Interests: John Henry Newman, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Ricoeur
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Rachel Handley
Teaching Fellow
Interests: metaethics, moral psychology, moral epistemology, philosophy of disability, history of analytic philosophy
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Meredith Plug
Lecturer
Interests: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Psychology, Moral Psychology, Autism Spectrum Disorder
Postdoctoral Researchers
Alexis Delamare
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
The Role of Desire in the Experience of Value: A Defense of Axiological Conativism
Interests: phenomenology (including the Brentano school), philosophy of value, philosophy of emotion, ethics and the philosophy of action
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Rory Harder
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Communication and Institution
Interests: philosophy of language and mind, joint action and communication
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Christian Henkel
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Émilie Du Châtelet’s Theory of Causation and Laws of Nature
Interests: Early Modern philosophy, contemporary (causation, grounding, philosophy of mind), and continental philosophy (esp. Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and French phenomenology)
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Silvia Ivani
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
Challenges in Public Engagement and Science Communication
Interests: philosophy of science, feminist philosophy, and social epistemology
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Carline Klijnman
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
When Citizens Don’t Know Whom to Believe
Interests: political epistemology, voting ethics, epistemic democracy, virtue and vice epistemology, moral and epistemic responsibility, moral encroachment, testimony, epistemic justice
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Dervla MacManus
SFI Public Service Fellow
Investigating Gender Aspects of Ireland’s Clean Energy Transition
Interests: gender and feminism in architectural practice, representations of architecture and their relationship to architectural experience
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Quan Nguyen
Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow
The Agency, Emotions and Language of Climate Activism
Interests: ethics, rationality theory, philosophy of emotions, feminist philosophy, political philosophy, and environmental ethics
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Xintong Wei
PERITIA Postdoctoral Fellow
Truth, Political Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy
Interests: Intersection of epistemology, theory of normativity and philosophy of mind; the role of truth in political deliberation and democratic legitimacy; epistemic agency; the epistemology of political disagreement
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Postgraduate Researchers
Ranier Abengana
The Future of Work and the Crisis of Critique: Resistance as a Condition of Possibility
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Natalia Burakowska
The Phenomenology of Dementia: An Embodied-Cognitive Account
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Gent Cakaj
The Final End of Pure Reason: On the Religious Implications of Kant’s Critical Philosophy
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Maria Agnese Casellato
Linguistic Reference: Descriptive, Externalism and a Middle Course
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Natalija Cera
Understanding Belonging in the Condition of Migration
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Antonio Pio De Mattia
Unveiling Truth and Co-Responsibility in Discourse: A Critical Examination of Habermas-Apel’s Transcendental-Pragmatic Method
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Lucas Dijker
The Authority of Knowledge: How to Reconcile Expertise with Democracy?
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Marta Dmuchowska
Why Recover C. B. Martin's Two-Sided Account of Properties? (MLitt)
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Max K. Feenan
Moments in Time: Geschichte and Geschichtlichkeit in the Thought of Friedrich Schelling and of Martin Heidegger
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Grace Feeney
“My own body defies exploration”: Finding the Female Body In and Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalytic Theory
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Samuel Ferns
Freedom, Knowledge and Power: Reflexive Stage in the Grammars of Critical Social Theory
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Evie Filea
The Phenomenological Implications and Influences of Edward Bond’s Theory of Theatre
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Sophie Foley
Health and Pathology as Tools of Social Critique
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Misha Goudsmit
Narratives as Frames for Understanding: How Stories Regulate and Communicate Perspectives
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Alessandro Guardascione
Values and Selfhood in Psychopathology: A Phenomenological Account
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David Haack
Phenomenology of Temperature
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Jo-El James
Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Hyperobjects Education for Generations Witnessing the Aftermath of the Anthropocene
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Miho Kaneko
Can a Kind-Essentialist Account of Instantiation Explain the Authorial Creation of Fictional Characters?
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Denise Kelly
On Being (an Outsider): A Phenomenological Exploration of Social Phobia and Agoraphobia
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Haikyung Kwon
Negative Dialectic as a Model for ‘Concrete Thinking’: Adorno’s Formal Dialectic in Relation to Hegel
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Thomas Lewis
The Eternal Return and the Philosophy of the Future: Reading Nietzsche after Auschwitz with Sarah Kofmann
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Leung Yik Long
From Suffering to Critique: Negative Dialectics
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Pepa Mellema
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Pejoratives
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Nathan Mulder
The Screen Specter: Phenomenology, Image Consciousness, and the Digital Screen
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Aisling Phipps
Who Am I? A Phenomenology of Identity Disturbance in Borderline Personality Disorder
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Rachel Russell
Timelessness: Metaphysics and Perception in a Timeless World
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Clémence Saintemarie
The Aesthetic is Political: A Critical Phenomenology of Social In/Visibility: Perception, Representation, the Imaginary
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Petros Satrazanis
Analysis of Kostas Axelos on the Planetary Thought as a Path to Metaphilosophy
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Fanqi Sun
Nietzsche’s Philosophy of Life
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Roxane Pret Théodore
Rethinking Political Organisation from a Feminist Standpoint Politicizing an Ethics of Care and Vulnerability
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Philipp Wagenhals
Critique and Experimentalism: Philosophy and Social Criticism after Adorno and Dewey
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Danqi Wang
The Non-Persistence and Re-Instantiation of Persons: Fission and the Transient Selves
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Shengwei Xu
Adorno and Sartre on Freedom and Praxis: A Study of Transcendence and Revolution
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Gillian Johnston
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