W.H.A.(Harry) Bunting

Harry Bunting studied Philosophy at Queen’s University, Belfast and the
University of Exeter. At Exeter, where he studied under WD Hudson and DJ O’Connor, he gained an MA for a Dissertation in the philosophy of religion and a PhD for a Dissertation on ethics. Since the 1970s Harry Bunting has lectured in Philosophy in his native city of Belfast, first at the Northern Ireland Polytechnic and later at the University of Ulster. His main teaching areas have been: ethics, political philosophy and epistemology. A frequent contributor to Philosophy Conferences he has published many articles, chiefly in the fields of ethics, political philosophy and the philosophy of religion.

Maeve Cooke

Maeve Cooke is Professor of Philosophy at UCD and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. Her principal book publications are Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas’s Pragmatics (MIT Press, 1994) und Re-Presenting the Good Society (MIT Press, 2006). She has also published numerous articles in scholarly journals and books, mainly in the areas of social and political philosophy. She has held visiting appointments at the University of Konstanz, at the New School for Social Research, New York and at Yale University. She is a former Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) and currently President of the AvH Association of Ireland. She is on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and is co-director of the annual international ‘Philosophy and the Social Sciences’ colloquium in Prague, an important forum for critical social theory.

Christopher Cowley

Christopher Cowley is a lecturer at the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin.

Joe Dunne

Joseph Dunne is Principal Lecturer in Philosophy of Education and Head of Human Development at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. He is author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgement and the Lure of Technique (foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre) Notre Dame and London: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997). He has also co-edited Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy (Dublin: IPA, 2000); Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (Dublin: Liffey Press, 2002); and Education and Practice: Upholding the Integrity of Teaching and Learning (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004).

 

Michael Dunne

Michael Dunne is currently Head of the Department of Philosophy at NUI Maynooth and is President of the Irish Philosophical Society. His main area of interest is Ireland’s mediaeval university philosophical heritage. His current research project involves the edition of the scholastic works of Richard FitzRalph (1300-1360). Among his recent publications is (with J. McEvoy), The Irish Contribution to European Scholastic Thought (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009). Michael is a member of numerous learned societies, including the Royal Historical Society, the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Société internationale pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale (SIEPM).

Jonathan Gorman

Jonathan Gorman (MA Edinburgh, PhD Cambridge, MRIA) is Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast, where he taught from 1976 until 2010. He chaired the National Committee for Philosophy of the Royal Irish Academy from 2000-04. His research applies analytic pragmatic philosophy to historical thought and to law, with associated work in the history of historiography and in legal theory. He is on the editorial boards of the journals History and Theory, Rethinking History, The Journal of Philosophy of History, and Philosophical Inquiry. He is the author of the books Historical Judgement (2007), Rights and Reason (2003), Understanding History (1992 and 2005), The Expression of Historical Knowledge (1982) and many other writings. Further details are available at http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SchoolofPoliticsInternationalStudiesandPhilosophy/Staff/Gorman/#d.en.37988

Michael Howlett

Michael Howlett is currently employed as Head of Department of Applied Arts at Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT), Waterford, Ireland, where he also lectures in Religious Studies. Michael is also Chair of the Centre for Social and Family Research and the Research Centre for Creativity and Culture at WIT and is leader of the LSI SophiaEurope, Waterford.His current research interests are: Religious and Cultural Implications of the Irish and European Future; Ethical Perspectives on Progress and Development in Society, Science and Technology. He is particularly interested in promoting a closer relationship between the arts/humanities and the sciences in a third level context and has published in Irish and European Theological journals.

Dr. Julia Jansen

Dr. Julia Jansen, PhD (Stony Brook, NY), joined the department in 2002 after having studied and taught philosophy in Germany (Tübingen and Marburg) and in the United States. She has worked mainly on Kant’s theoretical philosophy, Husserlian phenomenology, and aesthetics. She is the author of ‘Imagination in Transcendental Philosophy: Kant and Husserl Reconsidered’ (under review). She is co-editor of ‘Rediscovering Aesthetics’, with Tony O’Connor and Francis Halsall (Stanford University Press, 2009) and of ‘Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices’, with Sinead Murphy and Francis Halsall (forthcoming with Springer).
Currently Dr. Jansen is working on a critical analysis of phenomenological aesthetics.
Areas of Specialization:
Phenomenology, esp. Husserl, and Kant’s Theoretical Philosophy; Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Areas of Competence:
Philosophy of Mind; Consciousness Studies; Philosophy and Cognitive Science; Feminist Philosophy; Critical Theory.

Noel Kavanagh

Dr Noel Kavanagh is a lecturer in Philosophy at the Department of Humanities, Carlow College and is currently teaching on the taught master's degree course in philosophy at NUIM. A native of Kildare, he entered third level education as a mature student in 1992, taking his degree, Masters and PhD at NUIM. His primary area of interest is the concept of love in philosophy and culture. Current areas of research include phenomenological psychology and the interconnections between philosophy and psychoanalysis.

Chris Lawn

Dr Chris Lawn is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Mary Immaculate College. He studied philosophy at the universities of Wales, Sussex, and NUI (UCD). For many years he was Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer, in what is now the Anglia Ruskin University in the UK. He also taught in the Arts Faculty of the Open University.  His recent publications are Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed. London and New York: Continuum, (2006) and Wittgenstein and Gadamer: Towards a Post-Analytic Philosophy of Language, Continuum, London and New York: Continuum, 2004. His research interests are: hermeneutics, philosophical historiography, and the writings of Gadamer, Collingwood, Wittgenstein, and Rorty. He is currently working on a book about theoretical approaches to the various models of the history of philosophy.

Cynthia Macdonald

Cynthia Macdonald is Professor and Director of Research of Philosophy at Queen's University Belfast and Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. She holds BPhil and DPhil degrees in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Her research interests are in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of cognitive science. She is the author of Mind-Body Identity Theories (Blackwell 1989) and Varieties of Things: Foundations of Contemporary Metaphysics (Blackwell 2005), and Editor (with Graham Macdonald) of Emergence in Mind (Oxford University Press, 2010), McDowell and His Critics (Blackwell, 2006), and several other volumes. She has published many articles in the areas of mind and metaphysics in journals and edited volumes, and held Visiting Professorships in Utrecht, The Rockefeller Foundation Study and Residence Centre, Bellagio, and The Humanities Institute, University of Connecticut. She has been the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including ones from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Royal Society of New Zealand Marsden Foundation, and the Mind Association.

Dermot Moran

Professor Dermot Moran has been Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin since 1989 and is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a graduate of University College Dublin (BA, 1973) and Yale University (PhD, 1986). He has lectured at Queen’s University Belfast and Maynooth College, and has had visiting professorships at Yale University, Connecticut College, Rice University, and Northwestern University. He has published widely on medieval philosophy and contemporary European philosophy (especially phenomenology). His books include: The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena (Cambridge: Cambridge U. P., 1989; reissued 2004), Introduction to Phenomenology (London & NY: Routledge, 2000), Edmund Husserl. Founder of Phenomenology (Cambridge & Malden, MA: Polity, 2005) and The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (Routledge, 2008). He is he Founding Editor (since 1993) of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Brian O'Connor

Brian O’Connor is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at University College Dublin. His mains research areas are Critical Theory, German Idealism. He is author of Adorno’s Negative Dialectic (2004), and of papers on the German Idealist and Critical Theory traditions. He is editor of both the Adorno Reader (2000) and (with Georg Mohr) German Idealism: An Anthology and Guide (2007).
Link to bibliography: http://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/staff/brianoconnor/publications/

Kevin O’Reilly

Kevin E. O'Reilly is currently a visiting lecturer at the Milltown Institute, Dublin. His research interests include the thought of St Thomas Aquinas, philosophy of the human person, virtue ethics, natural law theory, aesthetics, and hermeneutics. In 2009 he delivered the Annual Aquinas Lecture at the Priory Institute, Tallaght. He has also been an invited speaker at Ave Maria University, Florida, at Strathmore University, Nairobi, and for the Linacre Centre. He is currently Visiting Senior Lecturer at Strathmore University, Nairobi, for one semester. He is author of one book, Aesthetics Perception: A Thomistic Perspective (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), and various peer-reviewed articles in a range of journals, including The Thomist, Nova et Vetera, Angelicum, The Heythrop Journal, and The Modern Schoolman.

Graham Parkes

Graham Parkes is Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Sociology and Philosophy at University College Cork. His research interests are in Asian and comparative philosophy (German, French, Chinese, Japanese), environmental philosophies, aesthetics and the philosophy of film.
Among his publications are: 'Heidegger and Asian Thought' (ed., 1987), 'Nietzsche and Asian Thought' (ed., 1991), 'Composing the Soul: Reaches of Nietzsche’s Psychology' (1994), and translations of Detlet Lauf’s 'Secret Doctrines of the Tibetan Books of the Dead' (1974), Keiji Nishitani’s 'The Self-Overcoming of Nihilism' (1990), Reinhard May’s 'Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East-Asian Influences on His Work' (1996), François Berthier’s 'Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden' (2000), and Friedrich Nietzsche’s 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra' (2005). He has also published over a hundred book chapters and articles in scholarly journals and reference works, and has made videos on Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin, Otto Wagner, classical Chinese gardens, and the Japanese ‘dry landscape’ garden. More information can be found at: http://ucc-ie.academia.edu/GrahamParkes.
His current research project is a book with the working title, 'Returning to Earth: World Philosophy and Human Flourishing'.

Heike Schmidt-Felzmann

Heike Schmidt-Felzmann has been a lecturer in Philosophy at NUI Galway since 2004. Her specialty area is ethics, with her teaching, research and publications addressing a broad range of areas, from bioethics, professional ethics and research ethics to moral theory and metaethics. She is an active member of the leadership team at the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis (COBRA) and has been responsible for organising yearly national or international conferences and for attracting funding for research activities and events from a variety of sources. Her recent research activities include the lead on a national study of Irish Research Ethics Committees, funded by the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

Anne Scott

Anne was appointed Deputy President of Dublin City University in February 2006. Since February 2009 she has assumed the role of Deputy President / Registrar. Prior to this Anne worked as Professor of Nursing and Head of the School of Nursing. (September 2000 – Feb 2006).
She has also worked as Senior Lecturer in the Department of Nursing and Midwifery, University of Stirling and as a lecturer in Glasgow Caledonian University and the University of Glasgow.
Anne trained in the West of Ireland, in Sligo General Hospital and took her primary Degree in Trinity College Dublin. She then moved to the University of Edinburgh for her MSc and University of Glasgow for her PhD.
She has worked clinically and as an academic in Ireland, Scotland and Kenya; mainly in the areas of oncology, medicine and tropical medicine.
Anne’s research interests are in the philosophy and ethics of health care and in judgement and decision-making.
Professor Scott has been appointed by the Minister of Health and Children (Ireland) to the Board of the Health Services Executive. She was also a founding member of the Irish Council for Bioethics and is a former board member of the Health Research Board and the Board of Governors, St Vincent’s Hospital, Fairview. She is currently also a board member of the European Academy of Nursing Science.

Peter Simons

Peter Murray Simons holds the Chair of Moral Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin since 2009, where he is also Head of Department. His research interests cover metaphysics, logic, and the history of philosophy and logic. His main works are Parts (1987), Philosophy and Logic in Central Europe from Bolzano to Tarski (1992) and over 250 essays, encyclopedia articles and reviews. He has been editor of History and Philosophy of Logic, President of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, has taught in five countries, been external examiner at several universities and reviewer for numerous national and international funding bodies. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2004 where he is currently chair of the Philosophy Section. In 2006 he was elected Member of the Academia Europaea. http://sites.google.com/site/petermsimons/

Jeremy Watkins

Dr Watkins holds a BA in Philosophy from Cambridge University and a BPhil and a DPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University. Before taking up his current appointment as lecturer in Philosophy at Queen's University, Belfast, in 2007, he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at Corpus Christ College, Oxford. His areas of specialization include ethics, political philosophy, and legea theory, and he is, in particular, interested in questions concerning moral and legal responsibility, forgiveness, and the treatment of wrongdoers, with publications on these themes appearing in Theoria, the Oxford Journal of Letal Studies, and the forthcoming OUP collection Philosophy and International Law. At Queen's, he teaches a range of undergraduate modules, including History of Philosophy and Moral Theories, and supervises PHD, Masters and undergraduate dissertations in these areas. His institutional affiliations include membership of the Irish Philosophical Club, the Bristish Philosophical Association, and the British Society for Ethical Theory. he also serves on the Council of the Northern ireland Medical Ethics Forum.