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Timothy Mooney
I was born in Drogheda, grew up in Dublin and live in the nearby hills. My tertiary education was in University College Dublin and The University of Essex. I first became interested in Philosophy through reading Camus, Dostoevsky, Eliot and Solzhenitsyn, and inspiring lecturers in UCD and Essex did the rest. After some thirty years I still enjoy being at the other end of the rostrum or desk or coffee table. It is a joy to see keen students getting better and better in discussion and in their writing, whether at the undergraduate or graduate levels. Some have gone on to become friends and colleagues.
In broad terms my interests are contemporary European philosophy and the history of philosophy. My research areas have included phenomenology, the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida. In more recent times I have become especially engaged by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and the philosophies of embodied perception that they continue to inspire. Most of my thoughts on Merleau-Ponty (most notably on his account of the body schema with its motor intentionality and on what he adopts and adapts from Kant and Husserl) can be found in my monograph.
Supervisors: John Chisholm (MA) and Simon Critchley (PhD)
Phone: +353 1 7168527
Address: School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. 5th Floor Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8.
In broad terms my interests are contemporary European philosophy and the history of philosophy. My research areas have included phenomenology, the philosophy of subjectivity and deconstruction, with particular reference to Heidegger and Derrida. In more recent times I have become especially engaged by Husserl and Merleau-Ponty and the philosophies of embodied perception that they continue to inspire. Most of my thoughts on Merleau-Ponty (most notably on his account of the body schema with its motor intentionality and on what he adopts and adapts from Kant and Husserl) can be found in my monograph.
Supervisors: John Chisholm (MA) and Simon Critchley (PhD)
Phone: +353 1 7168527
Address: School of Philosophy, University College Dublin. 5th Floor Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin D04 V1W8.
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In the first part of this essay I go through some of the more clear-cut ways in which Berkeley anticipates Husserl and some of the latter’s successors. In the second part I lay out their criticisms of Berkeley, also indicating what they hold in common. In the third and final part I consider some of the ways in which Berkeley can meet these criticisms, either readily or through certain qualifications, and I bring out his most significant contributions as a proto-phenomenologist. My aim is to show there are more than traces of the phenomenological attitude in Berkeley. In his efforts to save the appearances, he goes back to that world in which we live and breathe, if not quite have our being.