Paul O Grady
Professor
Philosophy
Trinity College Dublin
Ireland
Biography
I studied English and Philosophy at UCD, where I wrote an MA thesis on Wittgenstein's Tractatus. After that I wrote my PhD on Carnap and Quine on Analyticity in TCD. My first full-time job was in Oxford and after that I came to TCD in 1997, being made Fellow in 2003. My interest in cognitive relativism arose from my graduate work and I published Relativism, Routledge (2002) with a series of papers on this topic. I also have a research focus in Philosophy of Religion, especially on the work of Aquinas, read in an analytic idiom, with Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion Palgrave (2014) and a series of papers. My current research draws together both analytic epistemology and analytic philosophy of religion and I am working on a monograph on Wisdom, drawing on virtue epistemology, epistemic contextualism and Aquinas's developed account of virtue. I want to explore why the topic largely disappeared in modern philosophy, what factors point to a reappraisal and how the topic is fruitful for virtue and social epistemology.
Research Interest
I work in two areas of analytical philosophy - epistemology and philosophy of religion. In epistemology I am particularly interested in cognitive relativism, contextualism, and the a priori. In philosophy of religion I work on classical theistic arguments, particularly those associated with Aquinas and his conception of the nature of God. I am currently completing a book entitled 'Aquinas's Philosophy of Religion''.
Publications
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Paul O Grady, Introduction to Philosophy, Dublin, Priory Institute, 2005, Book, PUBLISHED
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Paul O Grady, Themes in Modern Philosophy, Dublin, Priory Institute, 2006, 1 - 204pp, Book, PUBLISHED
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Buddhism in, World Religions, Dublin, Priory Institute, 2007, [Paul O Grady], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Two Dogmas and Empiricism in, editor(s)O Grady John, Scherle,Peter , Theology From the Rim, Lit Verlag, 2007, [Paul O Grady], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Paul O Grady, Philosophical Theology, Dublin, Priory Institute, 2008, Book, PUBLISHED
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George Berkeley, Dictionary of Irish Biography, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2009, [Paul O Grady], Item in dictionary or encyclopaedia, etc, PUBLISHED
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The Existence of God in, editor(s)Shand J. , Central Problems of Philosophy, Oxford, Blackwell, 2009, [Paul O Grady], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Paul O Grady, Relativism about Truth, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2010, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
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Disaccordi Legitimi in, editor(s)Villa and Pini , Il Relativismo, Palermo, Aracne, 2010, [Paul O Grady], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
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Paul O Grady, Faultless Disagreement, Irish Philosophical Journal, 11, (2), 2011, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
