Professor O’Shea is the Head of School of Philosophy at University College Dublin (UCD), having been a lecturer since 1992. He is also the Reviews Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies and the Treasurer of the International Irish Philosophical Club. Alongside his continuing work on systematic issues in the philosophies of the philosophers Hume and Kant, he is also working on issues in contemporary analytic philosophy involving naturalism, normativity, and perceptual epistemology, as well as on American pragmatism and neo-pragmatism.
Professor O’Shea completed his PhD studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1992. Since then, he has published several sole-authored monographs, three edited volumes, and is currently completing a co-edited volume, whilst working on Kant’s conception of regulative principles of reason and reflection. His teaching is very important to him, having also been the School Head of Teaching in Learning at UCD for a total of 8 years. He has lectured undergraduate students for over 40 years, supervised 9 PhD students and a number of postdoctoral researchers, and attracted in excess of €1 million over more than 16 grants as Principal Investigator, including a major grant alongside Prof. Willem deVries (University of New Hampshire) from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He believes that philosophy is a unique discipline in that envisions how things might coherently link across the sciences, metaphysics, questions of value, and experience.
