Paul O'Grady did a B.A. in Philosophy and English at UCD. He completed a research M.A. on Wittgenstein's Tractatus at UCD and a Ph.D on analyticity in Carnap and Quine at Trinity College Dublin. He was a lecturer at St. Catherine's College Oxford before coming to lecture at Trinity College Dublin in 1997. He is a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin.

Selected Publications

Books

Monographs

Relativism, Chesham: Acumen Press, 2002 196 + ix pp (McGill Queen's in USA)

Edited

The Consolations of Philosophy: Reflctions for an Economic Downturn, Dublin, Columba Press, 2010

Distance Learning Modules

Introduction to Philosophy, Dublin, Priory Institute 2005, 206pp

Themes in Modern Philosophy, Dublin, Priory Institute 2006, 198pp

Philosophical Theology, Dublin, Priory Institute 2008, 202pp

Forthcoming

Aquinas' Philosophy of Religion, MacMillan, 2011

Papers and Chapters

(1) Philosophy of Religion / Aquinas

"Aquinas on Modal Propositions: A Translation and Study" International Philosophical Quarterly 37 (1), 1997.

"From Agnosticism to Zen" International Journal of Philosophical Studies 6 (3), 1998.

"Anti–Foundationalism and Radical Orthodoxy" New Blackfriars April 2000.

"From Lhasa to Rome: Williams' Unexpected Way" Contemporary Buddhism 4 (2), 2003.

"Zen and some Unruly Dominicans" Spirituality July, 2003.

"Aquinas and the Arguments of the Philosophers" Doctrine and Life April 2004.

"Spirituality: a Conceptual Analysis", Introduction to Christian Spirituality (Dublin: Priory Institute, 2004).

"Aquinas Summa Theologiae", in J. Shand Ed. Central Works of Philosophy, Volume 1 Ancient and Medieval (Acumen, 2005).

"Aquinas: Philosophical Theology and Analytical Philosophy" in R. van Nieuwenhove and J. Wawrykow (Eds.) The Theology of Thomas Aquinas (South Bend, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2005).

"Form and Emptiness: Aquinas and Nagarjuna" Contemporary Buddhism 5 (3), 2005.

"Buddhism" in World Religions, Priory Institute, Tallaght, 2007

"The Existence of God" in Central Problems of Philosophy, Shand (Ed.) Blackwell, 2009

"Finding Consolation in God: Boethius' Consolations of Philosophy" in The Consolations of Philosophy, Dublin, 2011

"McCabe, Wittgenstein and Aquinas" (Forthcoming)

(2) Epistemology/Relativism

"Reason and Madness A Reply" Milltown Studies 32 , Autumn 1993.

"The Russellian Roots of Naturalized Epistemology" Russell: The Journal of the Russell Archives 15 (1), 1995.

"Anscombe on the Tractatus" Philosophy: The Journal of the Royal Institute of Philosophy 71 (2), 1996.

"Wittgenstein's Fundamental Thought" Milltown Studies 38, 1996.

"Carnap and 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 59 (4), 1999.

"Karl–Otto Apel's Interpretation of Wittgenstein" Freiburger Zeitschrift Philosophie und Theologie 99 (3), 1999.

"How Far Can you Go? Reply to Gregory" Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67 (3), 2003.

"Wittgenstein and Relativism" International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2004.

"Two Dogmas and Empiricism" in Theology from the Rim, Lit Verlag, 2007.

"Relativism" in Themes in Ancient and Modern Philosophy, 2009.

"Disaccordi Legitimi" in Il Relativismo, Aracne 2010.

"Relative Truth" in International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2010.

"Future Contingents and Relativism" (Forthcoming).

"Integrative Knowledge" (Forthcoming).

(3) Miscellaneous

"George Berkeley" Dictionary of Irish Biography (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).

"Philosophy and Irish Culture" in The Consolations of Philosophy, Dublin, 2011.

"Philosophy and Gestalt Psychotherapy" in Philosophy as a Way of Life, McGhee (Ed.), Blackwell (Forthcoming).

Reviews

The Metaphysics of the Tractatus, Peter Carruthers Philosophical Studies (Irl)

Language, Sassure and Wittgenstein, Roy Harris Philosophical Studies (Irl)

The Philosophy of John Scottus Eriugena, Dermot Moran Milltown Studies

George Berkeley De Motu and the Analyst, D. Jesseph The Berkeley Newsletter

Gadamer and Hermeneutics, H. Silverman (Ed.) International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Wittgenstein and Quine, R. Arrington and H. Glock (Eds.) International Journal of Philosophical Studies

Radical Orthodoxy, J. Milbank, C. Pickstock, G. Ward (Eds.) Religious Studies

The Empirical Stance, Bas Van Fraasen Review of Metaphysics

Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason, Berel Dov Lerner Philosophy in Review

A Fractured Relationship, Thomas Norris Studies

Jesus and Philosophy, P. Moser (Ed.) Search

Analytical Theology, A. Oliver (Ed.) New Blackfriars