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Dr. Eoin O’Connell Assistant Professor of Philosophy

 

Education:

• Fordham University, Ph.D., 2009 (Philosophy); M.Phil., 2007 (Philosophy).
  Dissertation: Kant’s Moral Idealism: The Nature and Role of the Highest Good in Kant’s Theory of Practical Reason.
• Trinity College, Dublin, M.Phil., 2002 (Music and Media Technology).
  Thesis: Structural Influences on Musical Composition.
• University College, Dublin. B.A., 1994 (Philosophy & English Literature); M.A., 1996 (Philosophy).
  Thesis: The Teleological Suspension of the Ethical.

Scholarly and Research Interests:

Kant, especially Kant’s practical philosophy; contemporary moral philosophy; epistemology; the history of philosophy.

 

Publications:

“Secularization and the Experience of Futility,” Rethinking Secularization: Philosophy and the Prophecy of a Secular Age. (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming).

“Motivation, Futility & the Highest Good in Kant’s Practical Philosophy,” Rethinking Kant: Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).

 

Conference Presentations

“Kant and the End of Faith.” The Philosophical Red Star Line, Fordham University, 2007.

“Motivation, Futility & the Highest Good in Kant’s Practical Philosophy.” North American Kant Society Eastern Study Group, 2007.

“Added Incentives.” The Northern New England Philosophical Association, 2005.

 

Courses Taught:

• Introduction to Logic
• Ethics
• Roots of the Modern Age: Philosophy
• Philosophy of Human Nature

Contact Information:

• Telephone: (718) 862-3869
• Office: DLS 436
• Fax: (718) 862-8044
• e-mail:  eoin.oconnell@manhattan.edu

 

Page last updated: June 2009