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National University of Ireland Maynooth
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Research Register:
| Surname | First Name | Title | Institution | Areas of interest | Thinkers of interest |
| Anderson | Nathan | Queens University Belfast | Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science; Ethics | ||
| Baker | John | Dr | Equality Studies Centre, UCD School of Social Justice | egalitarian theory, equality studies; democratic theory, | Wittgenstein |
| Barden | Garret | Prof | Emeritus Professor Adjunct Lecturer Philosophy Department, Centre for Philosophy University College Cork Milltown Institute, Dublin |
Philosophy of Law | |
| Beards | Andrew | Dr | Maryvale Institute, | Recent Analytical Philosophy; Philosophy and Catholic Theology | Lonergan (in relation to current philosophy) |
| Blake | David | Mr | Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick |
Philosophy of God; Metaphysics; Ancient Greek/Egyptian science and mathematics; Evolution; Philosophy and Catholic Theology | Jean-Paul Sartre; Gabriel Marcel |
| Bond | Steven | Mary Immaculate College, UL | Philosophy & Literature; Ethics; German philosophical tradition | ||
| Bottone | Angelo | Dr | University College Dublin | Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mind; Ethics | Ricoeur; Newman |
| Boyle | Elizabeth | Dr | University of Cambridge | Mediaeval Irish philosophy; translation of philosophical terminology; scholasticism and neoplatonism. | |
| Bradley | Daniel | Mr | Postgraduate student Department of Philosophy NUI Galway |
Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Mysticism; Philosophy of Religion | |
| Brereton | Pat | Dr | Dublin City University | Film; Ontology; Religion | |
| Broderick | Norella | Ms | Bioethics; Human dignity | Edith Stein (on mind) | |
| Bufacchi | Vittorio | Dr | Dept of Philosophy, UCC | Political Philosophy; Moral philosophy; Applied philosophy | |
| Bunting | Harry | Dr. | University of Ulster | Ethics; Philosophy of Religion; Epistemology | |
| Byrne | Susan | NUIM | Philosophy of language (Frege, Russell, etc.); Philosophy of Psychology | Wittgenstein | |
| Cooke | Maeve | Prof | Associate Professor School of Philosophy, University College Dublin |
The problem of validity (“truth”) in critical social theory; religion and politics; ideology; autonomy; evil. | Habermas |
| Costello | Stephen J. | Dr | Lecturer in Philosophy in Dublin School of Business, School of Arts | Contemporary continental philosophy and psychoanalysis; Philosophy of Religion; Ethics | Aquinas |
| Crumplin | Mary Ann | Dr | Heythrop College | Modern European Philosophy; Ethics | |
| Cummins | Hugh | Mr | UCD | Existentialism; Phenomenoogy; Hermeneutics; Postmodern Ethics; Continental Philosophy of Religion; Jewish thought | |
| Cunningham | Martin | Mr | Faith and Reason; Aquinas on Law | ||
| Daly | James | Dr | Senior Lecturer in Scholastic Philosophy, (Retired) Queen’s University Belfast |
Marxism; Natural Law | Karl Marx; St Thomas Aquinas |
| De Bhulbh | Sean | ||||
| De Wispelaere | Jurgen | Mr | Lecturer School of Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin |
Social and political philosophy, esp. egalitarianism; philosophy and policy, ethics of welfare state; Applied ethics, disability and health issues; suicide regulation; Moral philosophy; consequentialism and altruism | |
| Denby | David | Dr | School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, Dublin City University |
Intercultural studies: the debate on Enlightenment; Theories of culture and interculturality; Multiculturalism, ethics, relativism and universalism. Enlightenment studies: cultural difference and anthropology in Enlightenment thought; Sentimentalism and representations of interiority; Interpretations of Enlightenment in 19th-century France | |
| Desmond | William | Prof | Ethical problems Philosophy of Religion; Metaphysics; Aesthetics. | Hegel | |
| Donaghy | Declan | NUIM graduate | Metaphysics; Phenomenology, Practical & Applied Philosophy | ||
| Dooley | Dolores | Dr | |||
| Dore | Edward | Mr | Limerick Philosophical Society | Religion; Epistemology | |
| Dunne | Joe | Dr | |||
| Dunne | Michael | Dr | Dept of Philosophy, NUIM | 13 and 14 Century Philosophy; Irish thinkers in Medieval and Early Modern Thought; Friendship Theory | |
| Durantou | Patrick | Dr | ANSTED University, Pegnang, Malaysia | Contemporary continental philosophy; American philosophy; Spanish philosophy | |
| Fahey | Tony | Mr | Lecturer in Philosophy with Oscail/NDEC at DCU. | History of Philosophy; Epistemology; Metaphysics | |
| Farey | Caroline | Ms | Maryvale Institute, Birmingham, UK |
Thomist metaphysics; Philosophical Anthropology | St Thomas Aquinas |
| Faris | J A | Prof | Emeritus Professor of Philosophy Queen’s University of Belfast |
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| Finegan | Tom | TCD | Philosophy of law; Human rights / bioethics; | Levinas; Marion | |
| Fitzgerald | Rosaleen | General | |||
| Flynn | Catherine | NUIG | Philosophy of Religion; Phenomenology; Feminist Ethics | ||
| Francis | Kenneth | Mr | Mater Dei | Consciousness, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of mind, Biblical studies, Cosmology, Quantum physics, Ethics, Morality, Politics & Religion. | George Berkeley |
| Gaden | Gerry | Dr | School of Education and lifelong learning, University College Dublin |
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| Gaines | Éamonn | Mr | Teaching Assistant School of Politics, int’l studies and philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast |
Ancient and Medieval Philosophy; Metaphysics and ontology; Moral philosophy, especially natural law ethics and virtue theory; Metaphysical theories of personhood; Philosophy and Christianity | Aristotle; Augustine; Aquinas; Boethius; Richard of St Victor; Gabriel Marcel; Robert Spaemann; Raymond Tallis |
| Garvey | John | Mr | Department of Philosophy, (Postgraduate student) NUI Galway |
Philosophy of Religion; Philosophy of Science | |
| Gilpin | Sandra | History of the development of ideas | |||
| Gorevan | Patrick | Dr | NUIM | Emotions in Aquinas, Descartes, Scheler; Theory of knowledge; Aquinas metaphysics | |
| Gottlöber | Susan | Dr. | NUIM | Philosophical anthropology, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology | |
| Gourley | Frank | Dr | Emeritus Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Science, Queen’s University of Belfast |
History and Philosophy of Science | |
| Gurmin | John Haydn | Mr | Faculty of Philosophy (Postgraduate student) NUI Maynooth |
Philosophical Anthropology; Socio-Biology | Edith Stein |
| Hayes | W.J. | Prof | Coordinating Head, Arts Departments Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick |
Classical Philosophy; Philosophical psychology, especially the Aristotelian tradition; Philosophy of mind; Ethics, especially justice and medical issues | Wittgenstein |
| Hoey | Sile | Dr | Carlow College | Political Philosophy; Ethics | |
| Honohan | Iseult | Dr | School of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin |
political theory – historical and normative; communitarian and civic republican thought; citizenship and immigration; feminism; ethics and public affairs. | |
| Hutchen | Michael | Mr | Phenomenology; Existentialism | Husserl; Heidegger; Nietzsche | |
| Hynes | Julia | Ms | |||
| Iglesias | Teresa | Dr | Senior Lecturer School of Philosophy University College Dublin |
Moral Philosophy; Biomedical Ethics; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of the Person | Plato; Aristotle; Aquinas; Russell; Wittgenstein; J H Newman |
| Ingram | Attracta | Prof | Associate Professor and Head of School, School of Politics & International Relations, University College Dublin |
Liberal theories of rights; Multiculturalism and cosmopolitan ideas; State and nation; Moral and political philosophy; Legal and social philosophy; Rights theory; ontemporary liberalism; Self-determination | |
| Jansen | Julia | Dr | Dept of Philosophy, UCC | Aesthetics; Phenomenology | Kant |
| Jennings | Gavan | Rev Dr | Dialectical methodology in Aristotle; Natural theology; Aesthetics | Aristotle; Aquinas; George Berkeley | |
| Kavanagh | Catherine | Dr | University of Limerick | Medieval Philosophy; Ancient philosophy; Philosophy of Religion | Eriugena; Maximus Confessor |
| Kavanagh | Noel | Dr | Carlow College | Phenomenology; Phenomenological Psychology and Psychoanalysis; Continental thought, German Idealism; Film and Psychology | |
| Keane | Evelyn (Lynn) | Dr | UCD | Aristotle’s Ethics, Psychology (emotion theory); Medicatl Ethics | The Stoics |
| Keane | Niall | Dr | Mary Immaculate College, UL | Phenomenology / Hermeneutics / Ancient Philosophy | |
| Kearney | Richard | Prof | Charles Seelig Professor in Philosophy Philosophy Department Boston College (USA) |
Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Aesthetics; Ethics; Philosophy of Otherness; Philosophy of Imagination | Derrida; Ricoeur; Lévinas; John Toland |
| Kenneally | Emma | Carlow College | Philosophical Psychology; Existentialism; Phenomenology | ||
| Kerr | Gaven | Mr | (Postgraduate student) School of Politics, Int’l Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University Belfast |
Metaphysics; Epistemology; The human Good in relation; participation metaphysics, Analytical Philosophy; Recent interpretations of Thomism | Aristotle; Aquinas; Kant; Lonergan; Medieval philosophers generally, eg. Anselm, Giles of Rome, Henry of Ghent |
| Lally | Róisín | Ms | Phenomenology; Philosophy of technology (esp. Heideggerian perspectives) | Heidegger | |
| Lawn | Chris | Dr | Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick |
Philosophy and language; The relationship between continental and analytic philosophy; Hermeneutics; History and historiography of philosophy; Literary aesthetics | Wittgenstein; Rorty; Gadamer; Collingwood; Oakeshott. |
| Lebech | Mette | Dr | Lecturer Department of Philosophy NUI Maynooth |
Philosophy of Human Dignity; Early phenomenology; Bioethics | Edith Stein; Thomas Aquinas |
| Loftus | Cathal | Mr | Ethics, especially the right to life; Communication; Religion, especially the problem of evil; Irish philosophy | Wittgenstein; Habermas; Chomsky | |
| Long | Fiachra | Dr | Department of Education, University College Cork |
Education, Theology and Philosophy; Philosophy with children; Stoicism in education and in Christian theology; Common sense theory in education; History of educational ideas | Maurice Blondel |
| Lynch | Tim | Dr | Emeritus lecturer in Scholastic Philosophy, Queens University Belfast |
Epistemology; Philosophy of Religion | St Thomas Aquinas; Bernard Lonergan |
| MacIntyre | Alasdair | Prof. | Notre Dame, USA | Moral Philosophy, Practical Rationality | Aristotle, Aquinas |
| McCauley | Harry | Dr | Lecturer Faculty of Philosophy, NUI Maynooth |
Moral theory, especially moral realism; Utilitarianism and Kantian theory; Epistemology, especially Descartes and contemporary justification theory | Descartes; Kant |
| McCulloch | Alison | Dr | Modern Philosophy; Feminist Philosophy; Existentialism | Kant | |
| McDonnell | Cyril | Dr | Contract Lecturer Faculty of Philosophy, NUI Maynooth |
History of Phenomenology; Ethics, both general & special; Philosophy of education | Brentano; Husserl; Heidegger; Lévinas |
| McDonnell | Martin | Mr | Past President Limerick Philosophical Society |
Scholastic Philosophy; Philosophy of religion | Aristotle; Lonergan |
| McGroggan | Stephen | Mr | Faculty of Philosophy Postgraduate student, NUI Maynooth |
Philosophy of Religion; Moral Philosophy; Existentialism | |
| McGuirk | James | Dr | |||
| McSweeney | John | Dr | Milltown Institute, Dublin | Contemporary political and ethical theory, especially, poststructuralist and post-Lacanian politics; philosophy & literature; philosophy & religion. | Foucault, Ranciere, Badiou, Zizek. |
| Meade | Elizabeth | Ms. | NUIM | Philosophy of religion (Kierkegaard); Existentialism; Onto-theological constitution of metaphysics | Kierkegaard |
| Meehan | Therese | Dr | Nursing School, UCD | Philosophy of Edith Stein (as relate to theoretical foundations for nursing); Summa Theologica, Vol.34 (as relates to theoretical foundations for nursing). | |
| Melvin | Catherine | NUI Maynooth | The concept of belonging & alientation; Liminality & William Desmond’s ‘Between Metaxological sense of being’; Metaphysics; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics | William Desmond; Heraclitus; Eriugena; Moriarty; Edith Stein; Dilthey | |
| Mooney | Tim | Dr | Senior Lecturer School of Philosophy University College Dublin |
History of philosophy and process thought; Contemporary continental philosophy; Phenomenology of perception; Philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, | Husserl; Heidegger; Merleau-Ponty; Derrida ; Whitehead |
| Murphy | Eamonn | All Hallows College | Philosophy of Science; Political philosophy | ||
| Nine | Cara | Dr | Philosophy Dept, UCC, Cork | Political theory and international justice; Moral theory; Applied ethics | |
| Nolan | Simon | Rev | NUI Maynooth | Mediaeval Philosophy (Carmelite Scholasticism); Philosophy of Religion | Wittgenstein |
| O’Brien | Jonathan | Milltown Institute | Ethics; Asian philosophy; Ancient Philosophy | ||
| O’Connor | Thomas | Dr | Lecturer Department of Philosophy, University College Cork |
Aesthetics; Philosophy of literature; Phenomenology; Hermeneutics; Critical theory; Structuralism and post-structuralism | |
| O’Gorman | Paschal | Prof | Personal professor, Department of Philosophy NUI Galway |
Philosophy of Mathematics; Poíncaré’s philosophy of arithmetic, geometry and physics; Philosophy of Science (esp. realism vs. antirealism); Philosophy of Economics and economic methodology; causal holism (causal holism) | Churchland; Davidson; Hesse; Popper; Quine; van Fraassen; Wittgenstein |
| O’Reilly | Kevin E. | Dr | Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, Milltown Institute, Dublin |
Ethics; Aesthetics | St Thomas Aquinas |
| O’Rourke | Fran | Dr | Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, University College Dublin |
Philosophy of Being; Greek Philosophy; Neoplatonism (Pseudo-Dionysius, Liber de Causis) | Aristotle (evolution in metaphysical and biological works: Poetics, Rhetoric: metaphysics of metaphor); Pseudo-Dionysius; Aquinas; Heidegger |
| O’Toole | Edmund | Dr | Ontology; Psychiatry (Psychology and psychoanalysis); Culture | ||
| O’Brien | Mahon | Dr | Boston University | Heidegger & Continental philosophy; History of Philolosophy; History of Ethics | |
| O’Connor | Brian | Dr | UCD | Critical theory; German Idealism; Political theory | |
| O’Connor | Nat | Political philosophy (esp democratic theory) / Philosophy of mind (esp free will) / Philosophy of science | |||
| O’Donnell | Rory | Dr | National Economic and Social Council | Pragmatism / Hermeneutics / Religion | |
| O’Mahony | Paul | Ex UCD | Political philosophy; contemporary continental philosophy | Plato | |
| Orjika | Anthony | All Hallows College | Ethics; Philosophy of Religion; Epistemology | ||
| O’Shea | Jim | Dr | Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy, UCD | Analytical philosophy of mind; Analytical philosophy of knowledge | Hume & Kant; Wilfred Sellars |
| Otten | Sarah | Ms | Lecturer in Philosophy Humanities Department Carlow College |
moral & Political philosophy; feminist philosophy | Adam Smith |
| Parkes | Graham | Prof | Head of Department of Philosophy, UCC | Comparative Philosophy (German, Chinese, Japanese); Environmental Philosophies; Philosophy of Art and Film | |
| Prendergast | Saoirse | Ms | Morality & Ethics; Ancient philosophy | Aristotle | |
| Pring | Richard | Prof | University of Oxford | Philosophy of Education | |
| Quinn | Patrick | Dr | Head of Department of Philosophy All Hallows College, Dublin (Linked to DCU) Coordinator, Certificate in Philosophy Programme, Faculty member, Centre for the Study of Platonism, Trinity College, Dublin |
Philosophy of Religion; Platonism and Neoplatonism; Medieval Philosophy (Christian, Jewish and Islamic), Philosophy of Education | Plato; Plotinus; St. Thomas Aquinas; Iris Murdoch; Wittgenstein; Paulo Freire |
| Reichelt | Matthias | Metaphysics / Ethics / Philosophy of Religion | |||
| Robinson | Guy | Dr | Emeritus Professor | Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics; History of philosophy; Philosophy of language; Social philosophy | |
| Robinson | Peter J. | Epictetus, Cynics, Socrates | |||
| Ryan | Denise | Ms | Faculty of Philosophy (Postgraduate student), NUI Maynooth |
John de la Rochelle | |
| Schniewind | Alexandrine | Dr | Lecturer School of Philosophy, University College Dublin |
Ancient philosophy, esp. late antiquity; Neoplatonism and its Arabic medieval reception Ethics; Philosophy of mind, especially the mind / soul relationship | |
| Scoppettuolo | Antonio | Dr | Università degli Studi “Suor Orsola Benincasa” di Napoli | Moral Philosophy, Ethics; Ethics and political philosophy; Economics and ethics | |
| Shanahan | Mary | Mrs | UCD | Contemporary Continental philosophy, esp Levinas; Phenomenology | Plato – esp. moral / ethical theory; |
| Sheehan | Helena | Prof | Associate Professor School of Communications Dublin City University |
history of ideas, sociology of knowledge; alternative epistemologies & world views of our times; academic and cultural transformation in South Africa; marxism; science studies; media studies | Marx; Engels; Bukharin; Gramsci; Caudwell; Lukacs; Dewey |
| Sia | Santiago | Prof | Dean & Professor, Faculty of Philosophy Milltown Institute, Dublin |
Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; Process Philosophy | A. N. Whitehead; Charles Hartshorne |
| Simons | Peter | Dr | TCD | Metaphysics, pure & applied; Philosophy of language & logic; history of central european philosophy 1837-1939 | |
| Smith | Andrew | Prof | Professor of Classics School of Classics, University College Dublin |
Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of religion; Contemporary analytical philosophy | Bertrand Russell; John Locke; Wittgenstein; John Locke |
| Thornton | Stephen | Dr | Lecturer Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick |
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| Wade | James | St.Angela’s College, Sligo | Medical ethics; Phronesis and end of life issues; Genetics | Wittgenstein | |
| Waxman | Wayne | Dr | NUI Maynooth | Modern Philosophy / Wittgenstein; German Philosophy | Foucault |
| Robinson | Guy | Dr | Emeritus Professor | Philosophy of Science; Metaphysics; History of philosophy; Philosophy of language; Social philosophy | |
| Robinson | Peter J. | Epictetus, Cynics, Socrates | |||
| Ryan | Denise | Ms | Faculty of Philosophy (Postgraduate student), NUI Maynooth |
John de la Rochelle | |
| Schniewind | Alexandrine | Dr | Lecturer School of Philosophy, University College Dublin |
Ancient philosophy, esp. late antiquity; Neoplatonism and its Arabic medieval reception Ethics; Philosophy of mind, especially the mind / soul relationship | |
| Scoppettuolo | Antonio | Dr | Università degli Studi “Suor Orsola Benincasa” di Napoli | Moral Philosophy, Ethics; Ethics and political philosophy; Economics and ethics | |
| Shanahan | Mary | Mrs | UCD | Contemporary Continental philosophy, esp Levinas; Phenomenology | Plato – esp. moral / ethical theory; |
| Sheehan | Helena | Prof | Associate Professor School of Communications Dublin City University |
history of ideas, sociology of knowledge; alternative epistemologies & world views of our times; academic and cultural transformation in South Africa; marxism; science studies; media studies | Marx; Engels; Bukharin; Gramsci; Caudwell; Lukacs; Dewey |
| Sia | Santiago | Prof | Dean & Professor, Faculty of Philosophy Milltown Institute, Dublin |
Philosophy of Religion; Ethics; Process Philosophy | A. N. Whitehead; Charles Hartshorne |
| Simons | Peter | Dr | TCD | Metaphysics, pure & applied; Philosophy of language & logic; history of central european philosophy 1837-1939 | |
| Smith | Andrew | Prof | Professor of Classics School of Classics, University College Dublin |
Philosophy of language; Philosophy of mind; Philosophy of religion; Contemporary analytical philosophy | Bertrand Russell; John Locke; Wittgenstein; John Locke |
| Thornton | Stephen | Dr | Lecturer Department of Philosophy, Mary Immaculate College University of Limerick |
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| Wade | James | St.Angela’s College, Sligo | Medical ethics; Phronesis and end of life issues; Genetics | Wittgenstein | |
| Waxman | Wayne | Dr | NUI Maynooth | Modern Philosophy / Wittgenstein; German Philosophy | Foucault |