JOSEPH DUNNE

Major interests:
Philosophical anthropology; human flourishing in modernity/post-modernity.
Practical knowledge; theory/practice loop; nature and limits of ‘rationality’.
Educative and therapeutic relationships; constructions of childhood/adulthood.
Interdependence and autonomy: republicanism and liberalism as rival political philosophies.
Sports. Hill-walking.

Brief biographical note:
Joseph Dunne teaches philosophy and co-ordinates the inter-disciplinary programme in Human Development at St. Patrick’s College, Dublin City University. Author of Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (1993; 1997). Co-editor of Questioning Ireland: Debates in Political Philosophy and Public Policy (2000); Childhood and its Discontents: The First Seamus Heaney Lectures (2002) and Education as a Practice (forthcoming, 2003). Has spoken and published widely on educational and philosophical topics in Ireland, Britain and North America.