Patrick Masterson
Patrick Masterson | |
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Born | Dublin, Ireland | 19 October 1936
Nationality | Irish |
Alma mater | University College Dublin; University of Leuven (Ph.D.) |
Occupation(s) | educator |
4th President of the European University Institute | |
In office 1994–2001 | |
Preceded by | Émile Noël |
Succeeded by | Yves Mény |
Patrick Masterson OMRI (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.[citation needed
]
He was a member of the staff of
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.[citation needed]
He is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at University College Dublin.[citation needed]
Publications
- Atheism and Alienation: A Study of the Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Atheism. Dublin & London: Gill and Macmillan. 1971 – via Internet Archive.
- The Sense of Creation - Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate 2008, ISBN 978-0-7546-6426-0).[6]
- With Seamus Heaney: Articulations: poetry, philosophy, and the shaping of culture (Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
- Approaching God: Between Phenomenology and Theology (Bloomsbury 2013, ISBN 9781623563080).
- Quality Time at St Chinian (Liberties Press, 2017)[7]
References
- ^ "UCD President's Office: Patrick Masterson". Archived from the original on 18 January 2015.
- ^ "Dublin university president aims to lure foreigners". The Boston Globe. 29 September 1991. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- Times Higher Education Supplement. 5 July 1996. Retrieved 13 November 2010.
- ^ "Quality Time at St Chinian: a humorous take on higher education".
- ^ "Dr. Patrick Masterson".
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- ^ Masterson, Paddy. "Quality Time at St Chinian by Paddy Masterson". Liberties Press. Liberties Press. Retrieved 28 May 2017.