Thomas Duddy(RIP)

BA, MA, PhD (NUI)

Thomas Duddy was born near Shrule, Co. Mayo, and received his third-level education, including his doctoral degree, at the National University of Ireland. He taught at the Limerick College of Education and at the National College of Art and Design before joining the Department.

Teaching

Dr Thomas Duddy taught the following courses:

• PI216 History of Modern Philosophy
• PI241 History of Irish Thought
• PI217 Philosophy of Art and Literature
• PI312 Philosophy of Mind/Epistemology
• PI513 Ethics and the Environment (Postgraduate)

• PI118 Philosophy of Human Rights (component of Philosophy, Meaning and Human Values)

Research and Publications

Duddy’s postgraduate research was in the philosophy of mind, resulting in MA and PhD dissertations, and in the publication of a monograph and a number of refereed articles, as well as conference papers. In more recent years he pursued an interest in Irish intellectual history, an area in which he has presented papers and published monographs and articles as well as editing a biographical dictionary and a series of reprints of works of nineteenth-century Irish thinkers.

Selected Publications (since 2000)

Books

Editor, Dictionary of Irish Philosophers (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004).

Editor, The Irish Response to Darwinism (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2003).

A History of Irish Thought (London: Routledge, 2002).

Editor, Irish Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002).

Articles

’The Personal Universe: Drury and Macmurray on the Philosophy of Psychology’, Journal of Scottish Thought, Vol 1, No. 1, Winter 2007, pp. 159-168.

’Irish Philosophy’ in Anthony Grayling et al (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), pp. 1633-38.

’Dublin Philosophical Society 1683-1708’ in Anthony Grayling et al (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), pp. 895-6.

’Royal Irish Academy’ in Anthony Grayling et al (eds.) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (London: Thoemmes Continuum, 2006), p. 2776.

’Iris Murdoch’ in Anthony Grayling et al (eds) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (London: Thoemmes Continnuum, 2006), pp. 2286-7.

 ’J. O. Wisdom’ in Anthony Grayling et al (eds) Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (London: Thoemmes Continnuum, 2006), pp. 3485-7.

’The Politics of Delight: A Revolutionary Reading of Burke’s Reflections’, Irish Studies Review, Vol. 13, No. 4 (November, 2005), pp. 499-505.

’Me. And me now’: Ulysses and the Myth of the Modernist Self’, The European Legacy, Vol. 10, No. 7 (December, 2005), pp. 681-88.

’Thinking Ireland: Cultural Nationalism and the Problem of Irish Ideas’, New Hibernia Review, Vol 7, No. 1, (Spring, 2003), pp. 14-23.

Reviews

’The Mind, the Brain, and the History of Dissection’, review of Jennifer Michael Hecht, The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France (Columbia; Columbia University Press, 2005); and Michael Tye, Consciousness and Persons: Unity and Identity (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005), in The European Legacy, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 357-9.

David Berman and Patricia O’Riordan (eds) The Irish Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002) in Irish Studies Review Vol 11, No. 1, April, 2003, pp. 85-86. 

Andrew Brook & Robert J. Stainton, Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000) in Internationl Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol 10, No 1, February, 2002, pp. 101-103.

Professional Activities

Member of Irish Philosophical Society
Member of International Berkeley Society
Member of American Conference for Irish Studies.

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