Eoin O'Connell

Professor, Philosophy

Education

  • PHD, Fordham University
  • MPHIL, Trinity College - Dublin
  • MA, University College, Dublin
  • MA, Fordham University
  • BA, University College, Dublin

Courses Taught

  • PHIL 321      Kant
  • PHIL 216      Modern Philosophy
  • PHIL 214      Critical Thinking
  • PHIL 205      Environmental Ethics
  • PHIL 399      Philosophy of Art
  • PHIL 150      Roots: Philosophy
  • PHIL 201      Ethics
  • PHIL 213      Introduction to Logic
  • Publications and Scholarly Activities
    • "Is cool a virtue?" Philosophy in the Contemporary World, Vol 28 (1), 2022.
    • "Whataboutery," International Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol 4 (2), 2020.
    • "Can we wrong a work of art?" Evental Aesthetics, Vol 4 (2), 2015.
    • "Kantian moral retributivism: Suffering, punishment, and the highest good," Southern Journal of Philosophy, Vol 52 (4), December 2014. 
    • “Happiness proportioned to virtue: Kant and the highest good,” Kantian Review, Vol 17 (2), July 2012.
    • “Motivation, futility & the highest good in Kant’s practical philosophy,” Rethinking Kant: Current Trends in North American Kantian Scholarship, (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009).
    • “Secularization and the experience of futility,” Rethinking Secularization: Philosophy and the Prophecy of a Secular Age. (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008).

    Conference Presentations:

    • “Personhood: A case study in the history of ideas.”  The Mississippi Philosophical Association, Spring 2019.
    • "Whataboutery." Long Island Philosophical Society, 2016.
    • “Inferences to personhood.” 12th International Conference on Persons, University of Lund, Sweden. August 2013.
    • "Can you wrong a work of art?" European Society for Aesthetics. June 2015. 
    • "Can you wrong a work of art?" St. John’s University, Queens, NY. October 2013. 
    • "Suffering, retribution, and the highest good in Kant's moral philosophy." Long Island Philosophical Society, 2012.
    • “Futility judgements.” Long Island Philosophical Society, 2011.
    • “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.
  • Other

    Co-Coach, Manhattan College Debate Team, 2008 - 2011