Dermot Moran holds the Professorship of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin since 1989 and since 2003 is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Dermot Moran is currently Director of the International Centre of Newman Studies in University College Dublin.
He has previously lectured in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast (1979-1982) and in the Department of Philosophy at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth (1982-1989), then a Recognized College of the National University of Ireland. He has held Visiting Professorships in the USA, including at Yale University (1986-1987), Connectic…
Dermot Moran holds the Professorship of Philosophy (Metaphysics and Logic) at University College Dublin since 1989 and since 2003 is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Dermot Moran is currently Director of the International Centre of Newman Studies in University College Dublin.
He has previously lectured in the Department of Scholastic Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast (1979-1982) and in the Department of Philosophy at St Patrick’s College, Maynooth (1982-1989), then a Recognized College of the National University of Ireland. He has held Visiting Professorships in the USA, including at Yale University (1986-1987), Connecticut College (1992-1993), Rice University(Fall 2003 and Spring 2006), Northwestern University (2007), and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Summer 2010). He was Walter Murdoch Adjunct Professor in the Humanities, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia (2012-2015). Prof. Moran was the Hans-Georg Gadamer Professor of Philosophy at Boston College in 2015.
Professor Moran was awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities in 2012 and was awarded the DLitt Degree by the National University of Ireland in 2013. He was awarded an honorary doctoral degree by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2015.
At its General Assembly in Athens, Greece, on 9th August 2013, Professor Dermot Moran was elected President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies/ Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie (FISP), for a five-year period from 2013 to 2018 with the responsibility of organising the 24th World Congress of Philosophy to take place in Peking University, Beijing, 13-20 August 2018.