William Lyons was formerly head of the Department of Philosophy (1985–1995) and Professor of Moral Philosophy (1985–2004) in the School of Mental and Moral Science, Trinity College Dublin. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

Selected Publications

Books

Gilbert Ryle (Harvester–Humanities, 1980)

Emotion (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

The Disappearance of Introspection (MIT, 1986)

Approaches to Intentionality (Oxford University Press–Clarendon, 1995)

Matters of the Mind (Edinburgh University Press, 2001)

(As editor) Modern Philosophy of Mind (Everyman, 1995)

Articles (most recent)

"Gilbert Ryle" forthcoming in Philosophy of Mind: The Key Thinkers, edit. Andrew Bailey, Continuum, 2013.

"Showing, Not Saying – Filming a Philosophical Genius" in Wittgenstein at the Movies, ed. Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova, Maryland, Lexington Books – Rowman & Littlefield, 2011

"The Great Apostasy? William James's 1904 Denial of the Existence of Consciousness", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 17, Nos. 9 –10, 2010, pp. 117 – 140.

"Emotion", in Philosophie Der Gefühle, edit. Sabine A.Döring, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2009, Teil 1 'Emotionen und ihre Objekte', 83–109; (reprinted from Emotion, Cambridge UP, 1980).

"Emotion Theories and Concepts (philosophical perspectives)", in The Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences, edit. David Sander and Klaus R. Scherer, Oxford University Press, 2009, 144–145.

"Conscience: An essay in moral psychology", Philosophy, Vol. 84, no. 4, 2009, 477–494.

"Nothing but the Brain", in David Ohreen (ed.) Introduction to Philosophy: Knowledge, God, Mind and Morality, Toronto, Nelson, 2009; (reprinted from William Lyons Matters of the Mind, Edinburgh University Press, 2001).

(With D. Berman) "The First Modern Battle for Consciousness: J.B. Watson's Rejection of Mental Images", Journal of Consciousness Studies, Vol. 14, no. 11, 2007, 2–26.

Plays

Professor Lyons also has an interest in "Theatre of Thought" drama. His play about Wittgenstein, "The Crooked Roads of Genius", won the START Chapbooks play competition in 2005 and his play about Heidegger and Arendt, "The Fir Tree and the Ivy", won The Eamon Keane Full Length Play Award in 2006 (now translated into Italian as "L'Edera e L'Abete"). He also has written an Aristophanic play about Socrates, entitled "Socrates and His Clouds" (previously "Nimbus Clouds").

The premiere and subsequent performances of "The Crooked Roads of Genius", directed by Nicholas Blackburn, took place at the Riverside Studios, London, 18th April – 8th May 2011.

The premiere and subsequent performances of "Socrates and His Clouds", produced by the Meddlers Theatre Company and directed by Melina Theocharidou, will be at the Jermyn Street Theatre, in central London, from 4th to 22nd June 2013.