Professor Irene McMullin

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

• PhD Rice University,

• MA University of Toronto,

• BA Hons St. Francis Xavier University,

Appointments

University of Essex

• Professor, Philosophy, University of Essex (1/1/2013 - present)