Dermot Moran
I am currently the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College. Previously, until retirement, I held a full Professorship of Philosophy, the National University of Ireland statutory Chair of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic), at University College Dublin. Since 1993 I have been an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy. I have held visiting positions at Yale University (1987), Connecticut College (1992-3), Rice University (Fall 2003, Spring 2006), Northwestern University (2007), Trinity College Dublin (ongoing), the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Summer 2010. I was Sir Walter Murdoch Professor in the Humanities, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2013-2016). In Spring 2015 I was the Hans-Georg Gadamer Visiting Professor in Boston College. I was The Tang Chun-I Visiting Professor, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Fall 2019; Professeur Invité, Programme gradué Translitterae, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France (Spring 2024) and Visiting Professor Peking University, Spring 2024..
At University College Dublin I have served as Head of the Department of Philosophy for three periods: 1989-92; 1993-1996; and 1999-2001.
I served as an elected member of the UCD Governing Authority for two terms (2009-2014; 2014-2018), responsbile for the overall governance of the university. I also served on several University College Dublin committees including the Research Ethics Committee (REC, see http://www.ucd.ie/researchethics/rec.html), which oversees all research in the university
I am currently Honorary President of FISP (International Federation of Philosophy Societies). I was elected President at the FISP General Assembly in Athens, for the period 2013-2018. I was responsible for the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy to take place in Beijing in 2018. I was previously President of the Programme Committee of FISP, responsible for the academic programme for the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy held in Athens from 4-10 August 2013.
Born in Dublin in the suburb of Stillorgan, I was educated at Oatlands College Primary and Secondary Schools, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin, run by the Christian Brothers. I completed the Leaving Certificate examination and entered University College Dublin (in 1970) on a UCD Entrance Scholarship to study Arts. I graduated in September 1973 with a BA Double First Class Honours Degree in English and Philosophy. As a recipient of the Wilmarth Lewis-Farmington Scholarship to Yale University, I went to Yale for graduate study in September 1973. I graduated from Yale University with MA (1974), MPhil (1976) and PhD (1986) degrees in Philosophy. My dissertation supervisor was Professor Karsten Harries and my thesis was entitled ‘Nature and Mind in the Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena’ (subsequently published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press.
While at Yale (from 1974-1978) I was a Teaching Assistant in Philosophy and also taught a College Seminar at Ezra Stiles College. I was Teaching Assistant for Professor George Schrader (‘Persons, Roles and Social Structures’, 1974 and ‘Political Philosophy’, 1977); Karsten Harries (‘Philosophy of Existence’, 1975); Edward Casey (‘Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis’, 1976); Harry Frankfurt (‘Introduction to Modern Philosophy’, 1976) and Robert Brumbaugh (‘Ethics of Classical Greece’, ‘Philosophy of Space and Time’, 1978). I also taught at College Seminar on James Joyce in 1976 at Yale.
In 1979 I returned to Ireland to lecture at Queen’s University Belfast (1979-82) in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy, under the late Rev. Professor James McEvoy, primarily teaching medieval philosophy and contemporary European philosophy. In 1982 I moved to a permanent lectureship in the Department of Philosophy at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, then a Recognised College of the National University of Ireland (1982-89), and now a full constituent university of the National University of Ireland and known as NUIM.
In 1989 I was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy in University College Dublin, appointed by the Senate of the National University of Ireland. I am now Professor of Philosophy (Joseph Chair) at Boston College
Supervisors: Karsten Harries (Yale University) and Louis Dupré (Yale University)
Phone: +1 716 552 3869
Address: Dept of Philosophy, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
At University College Dublin I have served as Head of the Department of Philosophy for three periods: 1989-92; 1993-1996; and 1999-2001.
I served as an elected member of the UCD Governing Authority for two terms (2009-2014; 2014-2018), responsbile for the overall governance of the university. I also served on several University College Dublin committees including the Research Ethics Committee (REC, see http://www.ucd.ie/researchethics/rec.html), which oversees all research in the university
I am currently Honorary President of FISP (International Federation of Philosophy Societies). I was elected President at the FISP General Assembly in Athens, for the period 2013-2018. I was responsible for the XXIV World Congress of Philosophy to take place in Beijing in 2018. I was previously President of the Programme Committee of FISP, responsible for the academic programme for the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy held in Athens from 4-10 August 2013.
Born in Dublin in the suburb of Stillorgan, I was educated at Oatlands College Primary and Secondary Schools, Mount Merrion, Co Dublin, run by the Christian Brothers. I completed the Leaving Certificate examination and entered University College Dublin (in 1970) on a UCD Entrance Scholarship to study Arts. I graduated in September 1973 with a BA Double First Class Honours Degree in English and Philosophy. As a recipient of the Wilmarth Lewis-Farmington Scholarship to Yale University, I went to Yale for graduate study in September 1973. I graduated from Yale University with MA (1974), MPhil (1976) and PhD (1986) degrees in Philosophy. My dissertation supervisor was Professor Karsten Harries and my thesis was entitled ‘Nature and Mind in the Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena’ (subsequently published as a monograph by Cambridge University Press.
While at Yale (from 1974-1978) I was a Teaching Assistant in Philosophy and also taught a College Seminar at Ezra Stiles College. I was Teaching Assistant for Professor George Schrader (‘Persons, Roles and Social Structures’, 1974 and ‘Political Philosophy’, 1977); Karsten Harries (‘Philosophy of Existence’, 1975); Edward Casey (‘Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis’, 1976); Harry Frankfurt (‘Introduction to Modern Philosophy’, 1976) and Robert Brumbaugh (‘Ethics of Classical Greece’, ‘Philosophy of Space and Time’, 1978). I also taught at College Seminar on James Joyce in 1976 at Yale.
In 1979 I returned to Ireland to lecture at Queen’s University Belfast (1979-82) in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy, under the late Rev. Professor James McEvoy, primarily teaching medieval philosophy and contemporary European philosophy. In 1982 I moved to a permanent lectureship in the Department of Philosophy at St Patrick's College, Maynooth, then a Recognised College of the National University of Ireland (1982-89), and now a full constituent university of the National University of Ireland and known as NUIM.
In 1989 I was appointed Professor and Head of the Department of Philosophy in University College Dublin, appointed by the Senate of the National University of Ireland. I am now Professor of Philosophy (Joseph Chair) at Boston College
Supervisors: Karsten Harries (Yale University) and Louis Dupré (Yale University)
Phone: +1 716 552 3869
Address: Dept of Philosophy, Boston College, 140 Commonwealth Avenue, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
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