Maria Baghramian

Who is Maria Baghramian?

Maria Baghramian is a professor of philosophy at the University College Dublin. Her main research areas are philosophy of language, relativism and rationality, 20th-century American Philosophy, pragmatism, philosophy of mind, Cognitive Science. Her research and publications primarily focus on discussions of objectivity, relativism and pluralism as solutions to the intractable diversity of beliefs and values, and on contemporary American Philosophy, particularly as it relates to the work of Quine, Davidson, Putnam and Rorty. She was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010. Since 2003 she has been the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies.

Baghramian graduated from Queen’s University Belfast in Philosophy and Social Anthropology with a Double First. She received a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in Philosophy of Logic under the supervision of Timothy Williamson. Baghramian has taught in TCD and since 1991 in UCD. She is the Head of the School of Philosophy and a co-director of the Post Graduate Programme in Cognitive Science at UCD.