Dermot Moran facts for kids
Dermot Moran is a famous Irish philosopher. He studies how we experience the world (this is called phenomenology) and also old ideas from the Middle Ages. He helps connect different ways of thinking in philosophy, like analytic and continental philosophy. He holds a special teaching position at Boston College and is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He also helped start an important magazine called the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.
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About Dermot Moran
Dermot Moran was born in Stillorgan, a town near Dublin, Ireland. He went to Oatlands College for his primary and secondary schooling. There, he focused on science subjects. He was also very good at debating in both English and Irish.
In 1968, he won a special award called the Higgins Gold Medal for Chemistry. Two years later, in 1970, he won another award for Chemistry from the Institute of Chemists of Ireland. Dermot Moran is also a poet and won a literary award for his writing.
Even though he was good at science, he decided to study languages and literature at university.
His University Journey
In 1970, Dermot Moran started at University College Dublin with a scholarship. He earned his first degree in 1973, studying both English and philosophy. He did very well, getting top grades in both subjects.
After that, he received a scholarship to study at Yale University in the United States. He earned several advanced degrees in philosophy from Yale: a Master of Arts (MA) in 1974, an MPhil in 1976, and a PhD in 1986.
He then returned to Ireland. From 1979 to 1982, he taught at Queen's University Belfast. 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.
For example, he taught at Connecticut College in 1992–1993. He was also a special professor at Rice University in 2003 and 2006. In 2007, he taught at Northwestern University in Illinois.
He has also visited and taught at other famous places. These include the Sorbonne in France, University at Albany, SUNY in the US, and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He also taught at Trinity College Dublin and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany.
Awards and Leadership
Dermot Moran became an elected member of the Royal Irish Academy in March 2003. This is a very important group for smart people 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 biggest world organization for philosophy.
He also started the International Journal of Philosophical Studies in 1993. This magazine is published by Routledge. He also helps edit a book series about phenomenology for Springer.
His book, Introduction to Phenomenology, won an award in 2001. It has been translated into Chinese and Persian. Dermot Moran was also the president for two big world philosophy meetings. One was in Athens, Greece, in 2013, and the other was in Beijing, China, in 2018.
In 2010, he was a guest professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He taught at a special summer school there about phenomenology.
Books by Dermot Moran
Dermot Moran has written several books about philosophy:
- The Husserl Dictionary. Bloomsbury, 2012. He wrote this with Joseph Cohen.
- Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
- Edmund Husserl: Founder of Phenomenology. Polity Press, 2005.
- Introduction to Phenomenology. London and New York: Routledge, 2000.
- The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena. A Study of Idealism in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
