Biography
Dermot Moran PhD, DLitt, MRIA was President of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP) for the term 2013-2018. He is the inaugural holder of the Joseph Chair in Catholic Philosophy at Boston College, and has also been Professor of Philosophy (Metaphysics & Logic) at University College Dublin. He is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy since 2003. Prof. Moran has published widely on medieval philosophy (especially Christian Neoplatonism) and contemporary European philosophy, especially the phenomenological tradition. His monographs include: Introduction to Phenomenology (Routledge, 2000), Edmund Husserl. Founder of Phenomenology (Cambridge: Polity, 2005), and Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2012). He is Founding Editor of The International Journal of Philosophical Studies (1993).