Academic Staff

Dr Tsarina Doyle, BA, MA, Ph.D.

Departmental role: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Final Year Coordinator,  Visiting Student Coordinator.

Location: Room 101, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0)91 495473

E-mail: tsarina.doyle@universityofgalway.ie 

Dr Lucy Elvis, BA, MA, Ph.D.

Departmental role: P4C Coordinator, Philosophical Dialogue Project (PDP), First-Year Coordinator.

Location: Room 102, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353(0)91 494333

Email: lucy.elvis@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Heike Felzmann, Diploma (Counselling & Psychotherapy), Dipl. Psych. (Hamburg), MA, Dr. Phil.

Departmental role: Students’ research skills development.  On sabbatical in semester 2, academic year 25/26.

Location: Room 201, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0)91 495043

Email: heike.felzmann@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Richard Hull, BA (Staffs), B.Phil. Oxon., Ph.D. (Keele) 

Departmental role: Academic Integrity Coordinator (Semester 2)

Location: Room 104, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0)91 493714

Email: Richard.Hull@universityofgalway.ie

Prof Felix Ó Murchadha, BA, MA, Dr. Phil. (Wuppertal) 

Departmental role: Head of Discipline, Director of the M.A. in Philosophy programme, Director of PhD programmes

Location: Room 202, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0)91 492573

Email: Felix.Omurchadha@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Orla Richardson B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Departmental role: P4C Coordinator, Philosophical Dialogue Project (PDP)

Location: Room 106, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0) 91 494332

Email: orla.richardson@universityofgalway.ie

Dr John O'Reilly, B.A., MA, Ph.D.

Departmental role: Undergraduate Lecturer

Location: Room 204, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0) 91 495928

Email: john.oreilly@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Nick Tosh, M.Sci., Ph.D. (Cantab) 

Departmental role: Second Year Coordinator, Coordinator of BA Arts with Data Science.

Location: Room 203, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353 (0)91 495929

Email: nick.tosh@universityofgalway.ie

Dr Nora Ward, BA., MA., Ph.D.

Departmental role: Tutor coordinator 

Location: Room 104, Philosophy Dept., Morrisroe House, 19 Distillery Rd

Phone: 353(0)91 493714

Email: nora.ward@universityofgalway.ie

Part-time Teaching Staff

Part-time and Temporary Teaching Staff

Nicola Bozzi, BA, MA.
First-year tutor, Youth Academy instructor and Philosophy in Schools mentor.

Michela Dianetti, PhD.
Post-doctoral researcher between Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the Discipline of Philosophy.  Michela is a co-instructor in PI2109 and PI2105 in academic year 2024/25, as well as a Youth Academy instructor.

Oliver Feeney, Ph.D.
Associate researcher with the Centre of Bioethical Research and Analysis, Discipline of Philosophy, University of Galway

Georgios Petropoulos, PhD.
Post-doctoral researcher between Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the Discipline of Philosophy.

Emeritus Staff

Prof. Paul Crowther, BA, MA, Cert. Ed., D.Phil,
Philosophy of Art & Culture, Dialectical Logic & Metaphysics, Kant's  Epistemology &  Aesthetics, Hegel's Aesthetics, Cassirer.

Prof. Paschal O'Gorman, BA, B.Sc. MA, Ph.D. (NUI) 
Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Economics, Philosophy of Religion, Epistemology.

Prof. Markus Hilmar Wörner, Dr. Phil. Habil., Lect. theol. (Bonn/Berlin), FRAS, 
Philosophy of Language (Rhetoric), Hermeneutics, Aristotle; Aquinas. 

Former Members of Staff

Mr. Joseph Mahon, BA, MA (NUI)
Introduction to Practical Ethics, Moral and Political Philosophy, Marxism and Existentialism, Culture and Society.

Fr. James Colin Garvey, OFM, MA. Doct. en Philosophie (Louv.)
Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy of Art, History of Medieval Philosophy.

Dr Gerald Cipriani, Cert, CertEd, PgCRM, MA, PhD
Philosophy of culture, aesthetics,  ethical phenomenology, contemporary French philosophy, dialogical philosophy East-West, East Asian philosophies.

Administrative Staff

Academic Support

Room 311 
First Floor, 
Tower 1, 
University of Galway
Galway, IRELAND 
 
Philosophy Admin e-mail: philosophyadmin@nuigalway.ie

School Admin e-mail:  sohap@universityofgalway.ie

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