Patrick Masterson

Patrick Masterson OMRI (born 1936, in Dublin) is a former president of University College Dublin[1][2] and the European University Institute.[3]

Patrick Masterson

OMRI
Born(1936-10-19)19 October 1936
Dublin, Ireland
NationalityIrish
Alma materUniversity College Dublin; University of Leuven (Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)educator
4th President of the European University Institute
In office
1994–2001
Preceded byÉmile Noël
Succeeded byYves Mény

Biography

He has held numerous appointments in academia, and has authored several books and publications on philosophy and religion. He has written a 'comic campus novel', Quality Time at St Chinian (2017).

He received a First class degree from University College and then took a Ph.D. at Leuven in 1962.

He was a member of the staff of University College Dublin prior to being appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in 1980, Registrar in 1983 and President from 1986 until leaving in December 1993 to become Principal of the European University Institute, Florence, a post he held from 1994 to 2002.

He was Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland from 1987 to 1988.

He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at University College Dublin.

Publications
  • Atheism and Alienation: A Study of the Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Atheism. Dublin & London: Gill and Macmillan. 1971 – via Internet Archive.
  • The Sense of Creation - Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6426-0).[4]
  • With Seamus Heaney: Articulations: poetry, philosophy, and the shaping of culture (Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
  • Approaching God: Between Phenomenology and Theology (Bloomsbury 2013, ISBN 9781623563080).
  • Quality Time at St Chinian (Liberties Press, 2017)[5]

References
  1. "UCD President's Office: Patrick Masterson". Archived from the original on 18 January 2015.
  2. "Dublin university president aims to lure foreigners". The Boston Globe. 29 September 1991. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  3. "Survey eyes PhD career paths". Times Higher Education Supplement. 5 July 1996. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
  4. Barden, Garrett (2009). "THE SENSE OF CREATION: EXPERIENCE AND THE GOD BEYOND�by Patrick Masterson". New Blackfriars. 90 (1027): 388–390. doi:10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01283_3.x.
  5. Masterson, Paddy. "Quality Time at St Chinian by Paddy Masterson". Liberties Press. Liberties Press. Retrieved 28 May 2017.


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