Dermot Moran facts for kids

Dermot Moran is an Irish philosopher. He studies a type of philosophy called phenomenology, which looks at how we experience the world. He also studies old ideas from the Middle Ages. He helps connect different ways of thinking in philosophy, like analytic and continental philosophy. He holds a special position at Boston College. He is also a member of the Royal Irish Academy and helped start a philosophy magazine called the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

About Dermot Moran

Dermot Moran was born in Stillorgan, a town near Dublin, Ireland. He went to Oatlands College for primary and secondary school. There, he was very good at science, especially chemistry. He won gold medals for chemistry in 1968 and 1970. He also enjoyed debating in both English and Irish.

Even though he was good at science, he decided to study languages and literature at university. He also writes poetry and won an award for his poems.

University Life and Early Career

In 1970, Dermot Moran started studying at University College Dublin. He earned a special scholarship to attend. In 1973, he graduated with top honors in both English and philosophy.

After that, he went to Yale University in the United States for more studies. He earned three degrees in philosophy from Yale: an MA in 1974, an MPhil in 1976, and a PhD in 1986.

He then returned to Ireland. He taught at Queen's University of Belfast from 1979 to 1982. Later, he moved to St Patrick's College Maynooth, which was part of the National University of Ireland.

Teaching Around the World

In 1989, Dermot Moran became a professor of philosophy at University College Dublin. He has also been a visiting professor at many universities around the world. These include Connecticut College, Rice University, and Northwestern University in the United States. He has also taught at the Sorbonne in France, the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium, Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.

In 2003, he became an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy. This is a very important group for academics in Ireland. In 2012, he won the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities.

He has been involved with the International Federation of Philosophical Societies since the 1980s. This is the main world organization for philosophy.

Books and Conferences

Dermot Moran helped start the International Journal of Philosophical Studies in 1993. This journal is published by Routledge. He also helps edit a book series called Contributions to Phenomenology.

His book, Introduction to Phenomenology, won an award in 2001 and has been translated into Chinese. He was also the president for two big international meetings called the World Congress of Philosophy. One was in Athens in 2013, and the other was in Beijing in 2018.

In 2010, he was a guest professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He taught about phenomenology there during a summer school.