Patrick Masterson
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Patrick Masterson Template:Post-nominals (born 1936 in Dublin) is a former president of University College Dublin[1][2] and the European University Institute.[3]
Biography
He has held numerous appointments in academia, and has authored several books and publications on philosophy and religion. He has written a 'comic campus novel', Quality Time at St Chinian (2017).[4]
He received a First class degree from University College and then took a Ph.D. at Leuven in 1962.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He was a member of the staff of University College Dublin prior to being appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in 1980, Registrar in 1983 and President from 1986 until leaving in December 1993 to become Principal of the European University Institute, Florence, a post he held from 1994 to 2002.[5]
He was Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland from 1987 to 1988.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at University College Dublin.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Publications
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- The Sense of Creation - Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate 2008, Template:ISBN).[6]
- With Seamus Heaney: Articulations: poetry, philosophy, and the shaping of culture (Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
- Approaching God: Between Phenomenology and Theology (Bloomsbury 2013, Template:ISBN).
- Quality Time at St Chinian (Liberties Press, 2017)[7]
References
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