
Member Profile: Rowland Stout
01 July 2019Professor Rowland Stout, contemporary philosopher was admitted as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy on 24 May 2019.
Rowland Stout is professor of Philosophy and the director of the Centre for Ethics in Public Life at University College Dublin. Through four influential books and numerous articles he has developed a novel conception of human agency, in terms of a sensitivity to reason and the norms of rational thought, thus establishing himself as one of the most original contemporary philosophers of action and mind.