Main Research Areas

Ancient and Medieval

• (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: Plato, Aristotle
• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: History of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages (12^th–16^th Centuries), Averroism

Early Modern

• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Locke, women philosophers, Scottish Enlightenment, history of ethics
• Elena Gordon: Hume, 18^th-Century philosophy, Early Modern conceptions of social cognition and childhood development
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: History of ideas, 18^th-Century Irish philosophy, history of feminist thought
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Kant, Hume
• (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson: Scottish Enlightenment (esp. Reid, Hume)

Anglo-American

• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea (Director, Dublin Dewey Studies): Pragmatism, Sellars, 20^th-Century analytic philosophy
• (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson: History of analytic philosophy

Continental European

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: German idealism, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jewish philosophy
• (opens in a new window)Timothy Mooney: Heidegger, Derrida, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: German philosophy (esp. German idealism and its successors), Adorno
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Kant

Non-Western

• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: Reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Buddhist thought
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Buddhism

Other

• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: History of ethics
• Elena Gordon: History of feminism
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: History of ideas, history of feminist thought
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: History of metaphysics and philosophy of science

Metaphysics

• Leda Berio: Philosophy of gender, folk concepts of social groups
• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Persistence
• (opens in a new window)Daniel Deasy: Time (esp. theories of time and change), modality
• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: Theories of the soul
• (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: Ancient physics and metaphysics
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: History of metaphysics
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Ontology, metaontology
• (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson: Metaphysics of perception and temporal experience

Epistemology

• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Social epistemology
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Epistemology of perception
• (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson: Epistemology of perception

Philosophy of Language

• Leda Berio: Linguistic injustice, language and feminism
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: Translation and untranslatability; continental philosophy of language
• (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson: Language, semantics
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Fiction, fictional characters, fictional names

Mind and Cognition

• Leda Berio: Philosophy of psychology and cognitive science
• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Personal identity, agency
• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: Theories of the soul
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: Memory
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Perception, mind
• (opens in a new window)Elmar Unnsteinsson
• (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson (Co-Director, (opens in a new window)UCD Cognitive Science): Perception, the senses, temporal experience, philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences

Subjectivity and Embodiment

• (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney: Phenomenology and embodiment (esp. Husserl, Merleau-Ponty)
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Phenomenology, embodiment, subjectivity and intersubjectivity; phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness

Social Cognition

• Leda Berio: False belief reasoning, theory of mind, mindshaping, language acquisition, comparative cognition, empathy
• Elena Gordon: Early Modern conceptions of social cognition and childhood development

Ethics

• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: History of ethics
• Leda Berio: Ethics and philosophy of technology, linguistic injustice, language and feminism
• (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: Ethics, philosophy of criminal law
• (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: Ancient Greek ethics
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: Intersubjective ethics
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Humean and Kantian moral theories
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge (Director, Centre for Ethics in Public Life): Medical humanities
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Well-being, the value of death

Aesthetics and Philosophy of Literature

• (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: Narrative, autobiography
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: Philosophy of translation and untranslatability, continental aesthetics and philosophy of literature
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Aesthetic, cultural and social theory; postcolonial, queer, and feminist theories of literature
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Fiction, fictional characters, fictional names

Moral Psychology

• Leda Berio: Virtue signaling, moral traits attribution, ethics of conversation, moral narratives
• (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley

Phenomenology

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: Husserl, Heidegger, Levinas, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: The relationship between phenomenology and hermeneutics
• (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney: Phenomenology and deconstruction, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty and embodiment
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Embodiment, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness

Critical Theory

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen
• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Critical social theory, critical theorising in the Anthropocene
• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: Adorno
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Critical phenomenology (esp. race, perception, affect, habit)

German Idealism

• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: Kant
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Contemporary German philosophy

French Contemporary Philosophy

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: Derrida, Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault, Ricoeur
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge

Hermeneutics

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen: Gadamer, Ricoeur
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran
• (opens in a new window)Tim Mooney

Social Philosophy

• (opens in a new window)Ruth Boeker: Social epistemology
• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Autonomy and authority, protest and resistance
• (opens in a new window)Lisa Foran: Nationalism, memory
• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: Social philosophy, philosophy of history, psychoanalytic social criticism
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Aesthetic, cultural and social theory
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Social philosophy, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, recognition theory

Political Philosophy

• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Contemporary political philosophy
• (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: Political philosophy, Ancient Greek politics
• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: Contemporary political philosophy

Philosophy of Law

• (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: Philosophy of criminal law
• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Contemporary legal theory

Critical Theory

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen
• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Critical social theory, critical theorising in the Anthropocene
• (opens in a new window)Brian O’Connor: Adorno
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge: Critical phenomenology (esp. race, perception, affect, habit)

Feminist Philosophy

• Leda Berio: Philosophy of gender; folk concepts of social groups; language and feminism
• Elena Gordon: History of feminism
• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Feminist philosophy and gender theory; history of feminist thought

Social Cognition

• Leda Berio: False belief reasoning, theory of mind, mindshaping, language acquisition, comparative cognition, empathy
• Elena Gordon: Early Modern conceptions of social cognition and childhood development

Philosophy of Science and Technology

• Leda Berio: Ethics and philosophy of technology
• (opens in a new window)Daniel Deasy: Time (esp. theories of time and change)
• (opens in a new window)Tim Crowley: Ancient physics
• (opens in a new window)James O’Shea: History of philosophy of science
• (opens in a new window)Danielle Petherbridge (Director, Centre for Ethics in Public Life): Medical humanities

Philosophy of Psychology and Cognitive Science

• Leda Berio: Social cognition, philosophy of psychology and cognitive science, moral psychology
• (opens in a new window)Christopher Cowley: Moral psychology
• (opens in a new window)Keith Wilson (Co-Director, (opens in a new window)Cognitive Science): Perception, the senses, temporal experience, philosophy of psychology and the cognitive sciences

Philosophy of Religion

• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: History of philosophy and theology in the Middle Ages (12^th–16^th Centuries)
• (opens in a new window)Maeve Cooke: Religion and democracy
• (opens in a new window)Daniel Deasy (Director, Newman Centre for the Study of Religions

Arabic Philosophy

• (opens in a new window)Dragos Calma: Reception of Arabic thought in the Latin West

Buddhism

• (opens in a new window)Katherine O’Donnell: Buddhist thought
• (opens in a new window)Tatjana von Solodkoff: Buddhism

Jewish Philosophy

• (opens in a new window)Joseph Cohen