Staff: Dr. Michael Dunne

Michael Dunne was born in Dublin in 1962. His university education took place in Dublin and Rome. As well as living in both Ireland and Italy, he spent some time as a student in France. After graduating from UCD in 1985, he went to Italy as a research assistant with the Index Thomisticus. While in Italy, he also embarked upon the project of researching some of Ireland’s mediaeval university philosophical heritage. Beginning with the person of Peter of Ireland (ca. 1200-1265), he undertook the edition of the extant works. These researches formed the basis of his doctoral thesis, which was later published. This interest continues with his current research project: the edition of the scholastic works of Richard FitzRalph (1300-1360), an Irishman active at Oxford in the second and third decades of the fourteenth century.
Since his return to Ireland in 1993 he has worked in a number of third level institutes. Since 1999, he has lectured at Maynooth.

PUBLICATIONS

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Books:

1. Magistri Petri de Ybernia, Expositio et Quaestiones in Aristotelis librum De longitudine et brevitate vitae, edited with an introduction by Michael Dunne, Louvain-la-Neuve, Editions de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Philosophes Médiévaux Tome XXX, Editions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 1993, 172 pp.

2. Magistri Petri de Ybernia, Expositio et Quaestiones in Peryermenias Aristotelis, edited by Michael Dunne, Louvain-la-Neuve, Editions de l'Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Philosophes Médiévaux Tome XXXIV, Editions Peeters, Louvain-Paris, 1996, xvii + 258 pp.

3. Boncompagno of Signa, Friendship, Dallas Medieval Latin Texts in Translation. (forthcoming)

4. John Blund, De Anima, Translation and Introduction, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, The British Academy, (forthcoming).

5. Richard FitzRalph, Lectura in Sententias Petri Lombardi, Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi, The British Academy, (in preparation).

Co-authored:

1. With J. McEvoy, eds., Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), 224 pp.

2. With J. McEvoy, eds., History and Eschatology in John Scottus Eriugena and his Time (Leuven University Press, 2002), xviii + 645 pp.

3. With J. McEvoy, eds., Amicitia – Selected Texts on Friendship from the Patristic Age to Modern Thought, two volumes (to appear).

Translated:

From Italian: F. Rivetti Barbò, Philosophy of Man: An Outline (Rome: Hortus Conclusus, 2001), 271pp.

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Articles:

1. “Petrus de Hibernia - A Thirteenth-Century Irish Philosopher,” in Philosophical Studies, Vol. XXXIII (1991-92), pp. 201-230.

2. “Aquinas on the Limits of Philosophy”, Milltown Studies, 35 (1995), pp. 59-68.

3. “Petrus de Ybernia – An Update”, Hiberno-Latin Newsletter [Toronto], 7 (1997-98), pp. 3-4.

4. “The Three Ways of St. Bonaventure”, Milltown Studies, 45 (2000), pp. 16-43.

5. “Einstein’s Philosophy of Science – Part One”, Milltown Studies, 47 (2001), pp. 14-29.

6. “Einstein’s Philosophy of Science (Part Two)”, Milltown Studies, 48, (2002) pp. 106-123.

7. “A fourteenth-century example of an Introitus Sententiarum at Oxford: Richard FitzRalph’s Inaugural Speech in praise of the Sentences of Peter Lombard.” Medieval Studies [Toronto], 63 (2001), pp. 1-29.

8. “Aquinas on CD-ROM: a guide to electronic consultation” in J. McEvoy and Michael Dunne, eds, Thomas Aquinas: Approaches to Truth (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), pp 158-171.

9. “The Commentary of Peter of Auvergne on Aristotle’s On Length and Shortness of Life”, Archives d’Histoire Doctrinale et Littéraire du Moyen-Age, [Paris] 69 (2002), pp. 153-200.

10. “Fourteenth-Century Views on Time, Motion and Infinity”, Maynooth Philosophical Papers (2002), pp. 25-42.

11. “Richard Kearney and Philosophy at the Limit”, Journal of the Irish Philosophical Society (2002), pp. 1-13.

12. Articles on “Peter of Ireland”, “Scholasticism”, and “Sedulius Scotus” in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill and Macmillan, 2002).

13. “Thirteenth and Fourteenth-Century Commentaries on Aristotle’s De longitudine et brevitate vitae”, Early Science and Medicine [Leiden], 8(2003) pp. 320-335..

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Accepted by academic journals:

1. Article on “E. L. Mascall” in The Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century British Philosophy (Bristol: Thoemmes Press).

2. Articles on “Peter of Ireland” and “Richard FitzRalph” in The Encyclopaedia of Irish Philosophy (Bristol: Thoemmes Press).

3. “Good Friends or Bad Friends – The Amicitia of Boncompagno of Signa”, Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie médiévales (2003).

MEMBERSHIP OF LEARNED SOCIETIES.

I am a member of the Irish Philosophical Society, the Société internationale pour l’étude de la philosophie médiévale and the Society for the Promotion of Eriugenian Studies, Medieval Academy of America..

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