Dr Cyril McDonnell

    Philosophy

    Gaeilge agus fáilte

    Lecturer

    Arts Building
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    (01) 708 3698

    Biography

    Research Interests

    One of my main areas of research in philosophy is Heidegger’s controversial development of Husserl’s phenomenology in the early decades of the twentieth century. This led to my other related main research interests in: Brentano’s re-introduction and modification of the scholastic concept(s) of intentionality; 'scientific' and 'hermeneutic' methods of enquiry in late nineteenth and early twentieth century phenomenology, as elaborated by Brentano, Dilthey, Husserl, Heidegger and Levinas. I also have research interests in the philosophy of relgion, in particular. in Kant and post-Kantian philosophy of religion (as advanced by Hegel, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard and Desmond) and in moral philosophy, in particular, the topics of (i) the relation of morality to law; (ii) the concept and justification of punishment; and (iii) the history and concept of rights. I also have a research interest in the complex philosophical issue of the 'causal relation' between teaching and learning in the philosophy of education. 

    Books

      Year Publication
    2015 Heidegger’s Way Through Phenomenology To the Question of the Meaning of Being. A Study of Heidegger’s Philosophical Path of Thinking from 1909 to 1927.
    McDonnell, Cyril (2015) Heidegger’s Way Through Phenomenology To the Question of the Meaning of Being. A Study of Heidegger’s Philosophical Path of Thinking from 1909 to 1927. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. [Details]
    2010 Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society (2009).
    McDonnell, Cyril (ed.) (2010) Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society (2009). Dublin: Irish Philosophical Society. [Details]
    2008 Maynooth Philosophical Papers Issue No. 4 (2007).
    McDonnell, Cyril (ed.) (2008) Maynooth Philosophical Papers Issue No. 4 (2007). Dublin: Philosophy Department NUIM. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2021 'Hume’s “Bundle of Perceptions” and the “Problem of the I” in Brentano’s Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2021) 'Hume’s “Bundle of Perceptions” and the “Problem of the I” in Brentano’s Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint' In: Ion Tănăsescu, Alexandru Bejinariu, Susan Krantz Gabriel, Constantin Stoenescu (eds). Brentano and the Positive Philosophy of Comte and Mill. With Translations of Original Writings on Philosophy as Science by Franz Brentano. Berlin: De Gruyter. [Details]
    2007 'Heidegger, Dilthey, and “the Being-Question”: Towards a Critical Appraisal of Heidegger's Use of Hermeneutic Phenomenology'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2007) 'Heidegger, Dilthey, and “the Being-Question”: Towards a Critical Appraisal of Heidegger's Use of Hermeneutic Phenomenology' In: Transcendence and Phenomenology. London: SCM-Canterbury Press. [full-text] [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2018 'The Origins of the Husserl-Heidegger Philosophical Dispute in Twentieth-Century Phenomenology'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2018) 'The Origins of the Husserl-Heidegger Philosophical Dispute in Twentieth-Century Phenomenology'. MAYNOOTH PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 9 :81-112 [DOI] [Details]
    2017 'Brentano’s New Understanding of Psychology in Light of His Reading of English Empiricists'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2017) 'Brentano’s New Understanding of Psychology in Light of His Reading of English Empiricists'. Brentano Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung, XV/1 :263-290 [Details]
    2015 'Understanding and Assessing Brentano's Thesis in Light of His Modification of the Scholastic Concept of Intentionality'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2015) 'Understanding and Assessing Brentano's Thesis in Light of His Modification of the Scholastic Concept of Intentionality'. Brentano Studien. Internationales Jahrbuch der Franz Brentano Forschung, 13 :153-182 [full-text] [Details]
    2012 'The Significance of Heidegger’s Analysis of Death in His Advancement of Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology Towards the Question of the Meaning of Being in Being and Time'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2012) 'The Significance of Heidegger’s Analysis of Death in His Advancement of Husserl’s Idea of Phenomenology Towards the Question of the Meaning of Being in Being and Time'. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 2011 :85-110 [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'The Task and Significance of Philosophical Reflection on the Relation of the Finite to the Infinite after Kant, in Husserl, Heidegger and Schleiermacher'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2011) 'The Task and Significance of Philosophical Reflection on the Relation of the Finite to the Infinite after Kant, in Husserl, Heidegger and Schleiermacher'. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 2010 :93-116 [full-text] [Details]
    2011 'Husserl's Critique of Brentano's Doctrine of Inner Perception and its Significance for Understanding Husserl's Method in Phenomenology'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2011) 'Husserl's Critique of Brentano's Doctrine of Inner Perception and its Significance for Understanding Husserl's Method in Phenomenology'. MAYNOOTH PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 6 :73-109 [full-text] [Details]
    2010 'The Causal Link Between Teaching and Learning: Some Metaphysical, Ethical and Political Considerations'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2010) 'The Causal Link Between Teaching and Learning: Some Metaphysical, Ethical and Political Considerations'. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 2009 :43-63 [full-text] [Details]
    2009 'Why Punish the Guilty? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of the State’s Justification of Punishment'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2009) 'Why Punish the Guilty? Towards a Philosophical Analysis of the State’s Justification of Punishment'. MAYNOOTH PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 5 :21-34 [full-text] [Details]
    2008 'Understanding and Assessing Heidegger's Topic in Phenomenology in Light of his Appropriation of Dilthey's Hermeneutic Manner of Thinking'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2008) 'Understanding and Assessing Heidegger's Topic in Phenomenology in Light of his Appropriation of Dilthey's Hermeneutic Manner of Thinking'. MAYNOOTH PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 4 :31-52 [full-text] [Details]
    2006 'Brentano's Modification of the Medieval-Scholastic Concept of Intentional Inexistence in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874)'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2006) 'Brentano's Modification of the Medieval-Scholastic Concept of Intentional Inexistence in Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint (1874)'. MAYNOOTH PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS, 3 :56-75 [full-text] [Details]
    2006 'Brentano's Revaluation of the Scholastic Concept of Intentionality into a Root-Concept of Descriptive Psychology'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2006) 'Brentano's Revaluation of the Scholastic Concept of Intentionality into a Root-Concept of Descriptive Psychology'. Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, 2006 :124-171 [full-text] [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    2004 'Heidegger's Recovery of the Being-Question in Light of His Interpretation and Evaluation of Husserl's Transcendental Reduction'
    McDonnell, Cyril (2004) 'Heidegger's Recovery of the Being-Question in Light of His Interpretation and Evaluation of Husserl's Transcendental Reduction' NUI Postgraduate Research Record: Proceedings of the Colloquium, x :128-136. [full-text] [Details]

    Book Review

      Year Publication
    2019 Review: The Intimate Universal by William Desmond.
    McDonnell, Cyril (2019) Review: The Intimate Universal by William Desmond. Dublin: Book Review [Details]
    2018 Review: William Desmond and Contemporary Theology.
    McDonnell, Cyril (2018) Review: William Desmond and Contemporary Theology. LONDON: Book Review [DOI] [full-text] [Details]
    2009 Review: Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy after Dialectic, ed. by Thomas A.F. Kelly (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007).
    McDonnell, Cyril (2009) Review: Between System and Poetics: William Desmond and Philosophy after Dialectic, ed. by Thomas A.F. Kelly (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007). Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    2009 Review: God and the Between, by William Desmond (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008).
    McDonnell, Cyril (2009) Review: God and the Between, by William Desmond (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008). Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    2002 Review: Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics and Culture, ed. by William Desmond & Joseph Grange (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000).
    McDonnell, Cyril (2002) Review: Being and Dialectic: Metaphysics and Culture, ed. by William Desmond & Joseph Grange (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2000). Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    1999 Review: Being and the Between, by William Desmond (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995).
    McDonnell, Cyril (1999) Review: Being and the Between, by William Desmond (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995). Book Review [full-text] [Details]
    1988 Review (in Comhar): Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture by Richard Kearney (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988).
    McDonnell, Cyril (1988) Review (in Comhar): Transitions: Narratives in Modern Irish Culture by Richard Kearney (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988). Book Review [full-text] [Details]

    Magazine Article

      Year Publication
    1996 Asking the Right Question.
    McDonnell, Cyril (1996) Asking the Right Question. Maynooth: Magazine Article [full-text] [Details]