Professor Irene McMullin

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Email
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Telephone
+44 (0) 1206 872711
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Location
5B.141, Colchester Campus
Profile
Biography
Irene joined the department of Philosophy at the University of Essex in 2013 after a postdoctoral year at Bergische Universität, Wuppertal, Germany and 6 years teaching at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She completed her PhD at Rice University and her MA at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues (Cambridge UP, 2018) and Time and the Shared World: Heidegger on Social Relations (Northwestern UP, 2013), as well as articles on Husserl, Heidegger, Kant, Sartre, Arendt, and virtue ethics. RESEARCH INTERESTS: Existentialism, Phenomenology, Ethics (especially virtue ethics and Kantian ethics), Moral Psychology, Social/Political, Aesthetics. I am primarily interested in questions of personhood and self-becoming - espeically the role that other people play in those things. I draw inspiration from both Continental and Analytic approaches. In 2022-23 I will be pursuing research into the phenomenology of ideality as part of a Humboldt Research Fellowship at Ludwig Maximillian University, Munich.
Qualifications
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PhD Rice University,
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MA University of Toronto,
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BA Hons St. Francis Xavier University,
Appointments
University of Essex
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Professor, Philosophy, University of Essex (1/1/2013 - present)
Research and professional activities
Research interests
Research Interests
Existentialism, Phenomenology, Ethics (especially virtue ethics and Kantian ethics), Moral Psychology, Social/Political, Aesthetics. I am primarily interested in questions of personhood and self-becoming - espeically the role that other people play in those things. I draw inspiration from both Continental and Analytic approaches.
Conferences and presentations
Existential Flourishing
Keynote presentation, Modern Ethical Ideals, Belfast, United Kingdom, 29/3/2019
Teaching and supervision
Current teaching responsibilities
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Phenomenology and Existentialism (PY454)
Current supervision
Previous supervision

Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 25/3/2019

Degree subject: Philosophy
Degree type: Doctor of Philosophy
Awarded date: 12/2/2018
Publications
Journal articles (11)
McMullin, I., (2020). Levinas and Løgstrup on the Phenomenology (and Metaphysics?) of Moral Agency. The Monist. 103 (1), 38-62
McMullin, I., (2020). Response to Commentators on Existential Flourishing. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 28 (2), 239-253
McMullin, I., (2017). Embodied Expression: The Role of the Lived Body in Husserl's Notion of Intention Fulfilment. European Journal of Philosophy. 25 (4), 1739-1767
McMullin, I., (2015). A Response to Mark D. White’s “A Modest Comment on McMullin: A Kantian Account of Modesty”. Journal of Philosophical Research. 40, 7-11
McMullin, I., (2013). Kant on Radical Evil and the Origin of Moral Responsibility. Kantian Review. 18 (01), 49-72
McMullin, I., (2013). Review of Iain D. Thomson. Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity. Cambridge-New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Journal of the History of Philosophy. 51 (2), 324-325
McMullin, I., (2011). The Amnesia of the Modern. Philosophical Topics. 39 (2), 91-116
Mcmullin, I., (2011). Love and Entitlement: Sartre and Beauvoir on the Nature of Jealousy. Hypatia. 26 (1), 102-122
McMullin, I., (2010). A MODEST PROPOSAL: ACCOUNTING FOR THE VIRTUOUSNESS OF MODESTY. The Philosophical Quarterly. 60 (241), 783-807
McMullin, I., (2009). Sharing the ‘now’: Heidegger and the temporal co-constitution of world. Continental Philosophy Review. 42 (2), 201-220
McMullin, I., (2006). Articulating Discourse. Southwest Philosophy Review. 22 (1), 173-183
Books (3)
McMullin, I., (2019). Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology. Routledge. 9781138479913
McMullin, I., (2018). Existential Flourishing: A Phenomenology of the Virtues. Cambridge University Press. 978-1108471664
McMullin, I., (2013). Time and the shared world: Heidegger on social relations. 9780810129030
Book chapters (3)
Mcmullin, SI., (2019). Rational Ideals and the Unity of Practical Agency: Kant’s Postulates of Practical Reason and their Heideggerian Reconceptualization. In: Transcending Reason: Heidegger’s Reconceptualization of Rationality. Editors: Burch, M. and Mcmullin, SI., . Rowman & Littlefield
Mcmullin, SI., (2019). Resoluteness and Gratitude for the Good. In: Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology. Editors: Burch, M., Mcmullin, SI. and Marsh, J., . Routledge. 137- 154. 9781138479913
Burch, M., Marsh, J. and McMullin, I., (2019). Introduction. In: Normativity, Meaning, and the Promise of Phenomenology. Routledge. 1- 6. 9781138479913