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    Programme Director: 

    Prof. Michael Dunne (Head of Department)
    Email: [email protected]

    Postgraduate Co-ordinator:

    ​Prof. Michael Dunne
    ​Email: [email protected]

    Class Representative: TBA

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    For more information, please consult the Research Student Handbook 2023-24
     

    Research Theses in Progress

    Ph.D. theses in progress

    Daire Boyle
    The Relevance of Phenomenological Reflections on Consciousness for the Development of 'Strong' Artificial Intelligence
    Supervisor: Dr Susan Gottlöber

    Chrisandus Ambale
    Lonergan’s cognitional theory: A transition to the Interiority level of meaning, and its relevance for post-modernist philosophy
    Supervisor: Prof. William Desmond

    Catherine Barry

    Arguing for toleration of Roman Catholics in Eighteenth Century Ireland
    Supervisor: Dr Susan Gottlöber

    John O'Donoghue

    Lacan's essay 'Kant avec Sade'
    Supervisor: Prof. Michael W. Dunne

    Frances Hannon
    Edith Stein's Philosophy of Education
    Supervisor: Dr Mette Lebech

    Xinchen Mao
    Transcendental Illusion and the Problem of Immanence - Transcendence in Kant and Husserl
    Supervisor: Dr Cyril McDonnell

    Charles Piecyk
    Foucault, Nietzsche, and the End of Man
    Supervisor: Prof. Michael W. Dunne

    Alan Xuereb 

    Architecture for the Common Good
    Supervisor: Prof. Michael W. Dunne
     
     
    Stephen Brian Walsh
    The Reception of Natural Law Theories among Anglo-Irish Philosophers from the Late 17th to the Early 18th Centuries
    Supervisor: Dr Amos Edelheit
     

    Patrick Butson

    Conceptions of the Self and Other: From Kierkegaard, through Heidegger, to Levinas
    Supervisor: Dr Cyril McDonnell

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