Eoin O'Connell

Professor
Philosophy

Philosophy

Contact Information

(718) 862-7326

eoin.oconnell@manhattan.edu

Office Location

DLS 435

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

Research & Scholarly Activities

  • Kant, especially Kant’s practical philosophy; moral philosophy; epistemology; aesthetics; the history of philosophy.
  • Eoin O'Connell - ResearchGate

Publications

  • "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.

Professional Experience & Memberships

Professional Memberships

  • American Philosophical Association
  • North American Kant Society