Dr. Ó Murchadha was born in Tralee, Co. Kerry. He studied philosophy and history for his primary degree and continued his studies in philosophy at University College Galway, University College Dublin, McMaster University (Canada) and Bergische Universität Wuppertal (Germany). He has taught in Canada, Germany and Ireland and has published in German and English.

(2011) “Religion and Theology” in Luft, S. and Overgaard, S.: Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, London: Routledge, pp. 473-482.

(2009) “Face and Flesh: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas concerning Desire”, Philosophy Today, vol. 34, pp. 244-249.

(2008) “Reduction, Externalism and Immanence in Husserl and Heidegger”, Synthese, vol. 160 (3), pp. 375-395

(2006) Violence, Victims, Justifications. Philosophical Approaches. London: Peter Lang [edited collection]

(2005) “Being Alive: The Place of Life in Merleau-Ponty and Descartes", Chiasmi International, vol. 7, pp. 209-224.

(2005) “Glory, Idolatry, Kairos: Marion and Heidegger on the Ontological Difference” in Cassidy, E. and Leask, I.: Givenness and God : questions of Jean-Luc Marion New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 69-86.

Phenomenology (especially Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Levinas, Marion), Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Time and Violence.