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Faculties & Departments

Department of Philosophy/Roinn na Fealsúnachta

Dr. Mette Lebech
Dr. Mette Lebech

Education:

Mette Lebech holds an exam.art from the University of Copenhagen, a candidature and licence from Université Catholique de Louvain, and a Ph.D. from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

Memberships, Nominations and Appointments:

Honorary Life Member of the Irish Philosophical Society for services as President 2003-08

Member of the NUIM Ethics Committee

Member of the Irish Theological Commission

Corresponding Member of the Pontifical Academy for Life

Member of the Edith-Stein-Gesellschaft

Selected publications:

1.  Philosophy of Human Dignity

  • On the Problem of Human Dignity. A Hermeneutical and Phenomenological Investigation, Könighausen und Neumann, forthcoming 2009
  • (With J. MCEVOY) ‘Robert Grosseteste on Human Dignity’, Proceedings of the International Conference Robert Grosseteste and his Intellectual Milieu, ed. James Ginther, Toronto University Press, Toronto (49 pp.), forthcoming
  • (With J. MCEVOY and J. FLOOD) ‘on Human Dignity and the Image of God: The Dicta Albini (Ps. Alcuin) and the Dicta Candidi in Translation, and their Latin and English Reception during the Middle Ages’ in Viator, forthcoming autumn 2009
  • The Identification of Human Dignity. Hermeneutic, Eidetic and Constitutional Analyses in the Light of the Phenomenology of Edith Stein, Ph.D. Thesis, supervised by Prof. William Desmond, Louvain, 2006
  • ‘What is Human Dignity?’ In Maynooth Philosophical Papers, Vol. 2, 2004, pp. 59-69, available from e-print archive.
  • ‘Towards a Definition of Human Dignity’, in La cutura della vita: Fondamenti e dimensioni, supplemento al volume degli atti della VIIa Assemblea Generale, ed. by Vial Correa and Sgreccia, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, Rome, 2002, pp. 87-101
  • ‘La constitution de la dignité humaine’ in Revue générale de droit médical, Bordeaux, fasc. 8, 2002, pp. 55-68
  • ‘The Constitution of Human Dignity’ in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, Maynooth, 2002, pp. 83-91, available from e-print archive.
  • ‘Clarification of the notion of dignity’ in Dignity of the Dying Person, Proceedings of the Fifth General Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2000, pp. 441-58
  • ‘Dignity v. Dignity. The Significance of the Notion of Human Dignity in the Human Rights Tradition and its Use in Bioethics’, in Studies in Ethics and Law, Vol. 7, June 1998.

2. The Philosophy of Edith Stein

  • ‘Stein’s Phenomenology of the Body. The Constitution of the Human Being between Description of Experience and Social Construction’, in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2008, ed. Fiachra Long, forthcoming 2009
  • ‘Stein’s Phenomenology of the Body. The Constitution of the Human Being between Description of Experience and Social Construction’ (shorter version), in Maynooth Philosophical Papers 2008, ed. Simon Nolan, forthcoming 2009
  • Martin Heidegger’s Existential Philosophy. A translation of Edith Stein’s Martin Heideggers Existentialphilosophie, Maynooth Philosophical Papers 2007, ed. By Cyril McDonnell, Maynooth 2008, pp. 55-98 to appear in Collected Works of Edith Stein, Institute of Carmelite Studies Press, Washington D.C.
  • ‘Reading Stein – A Guide for the Perplexed’, Review Article of Sarah Borden’ Edith Stein and Alasdair McIntyre’s Edith Stein. A Philosophical Prologue, in International Philosophical Quarterly, March 2007, 103-102
  • ‘Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Education in The Structure of the Human Person’, in REA, Mater Dei, 2005, pp. 55-70; Reprinted in What Price the University? A Special Issue of the Maynooth Philosophical Papers, NUI, Maynooth, 2006, ed. T. Kelly, pp. 163-78
  • ‘Study Guide to Edith Stein’s Philosophy of Psychology and the Humanities’ in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, Maynooth, 2004, pp. 40-76, also available in e-print archive
  • ‘Why does John Paul II refer to Edith Stein in Fides et Ratio?’ in The Challenge of Truth, (ed. by J. McEvoy) Veritas, Dublin, 200

3. Friendship

  • ‘Personal Friends’ in Amor Amicitia: On the Love that is Friendship. Essays in Medieval Thought and Beyond in Honor of the Rev. Professor James McEvoy, ed. by T.A.F. Kelly and P.W. Rosemann, Peeters, Leuven, 2004
  • ‘Friendship. The Dialectics of Personal Identity’, in Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society 2001, ed. by T. A. F. Kelly, Maynooth
  • ‘Venskab’, in Philosophia, vol. 24, 3-4, 1995 (Friendship)
  • ‘Overvejelser over begrebet ‘venskab’ hos Aristoteles, Cicero og Aelredus af Rievaulx’, in Filosofiske Studier 13, Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Retorik, København, 1993 (Reflections on the Concept of Friendship in Aristotle, Cicero and Aelred of Rievaulx)

4. Applied Ethics

  • ‘What is Bio-Ethics?’, in Current Topics in Bioethics, Vol. 1, no. 1, 5 September 2003, www.bsggroup.org, also in Maynooth Philosophical Papers, Maynooth, 2002 ed. T. Kelly
  • (with P. KEMP, and J. RENDTORFF) Den bioetiske vending. En grundbog i bioetik, Spektrum, København, 1997 (The Bioethical Turn. An Introduction to Bioethics)
  • ‘Comments on a proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and foetus’, in Journal of Medical Ethics, October, 1998, vol. 24, revised version of an article of the same title in Working Papers (EU-Project BIOMED II), III, CER, 1997
  • ‘Anonymity and Informed Consent in Artificial Procreation’, in Bioethics, Vol. 11, July, 1997, revised version of an article by the same title in The Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Medical Law, Vol. I, International Centre of Medicine and Law, 1996
  • ‘Principles, Compromise and Human Embryos in Europe’, in Bulletin of Medical Ethics, no 130, Aug. 1997, revised version of an article of the same name in Working Papers (EU Project BIOMED II) II, CER, 1997
  • ‘Kunstig befrugtning og embryoets status’, in Studier i Etik og Ret, Nr. 5, januar 1997 (Medically Assisted Conception and the Status of the Embryo)
  • ‘Bioetik i en interafhængig verden’, in Studier i Etik og Ret, Nr. 5, januar 1997 (Bioethics in an Interdependent World)
  • ‘Principperne i de nye franske love’, in Studier i Etik og Ret, Nr. 5, januar 1997 (Principles in the New French Laws)
  • ‘Fundamental Principles in Bioethics’ in Working Papers: Research Projects, EU BIOMED II meeting June 1-4, 1996 in Copenhagen, Centre for Ethics and Law, 1996
  • ‘Denmark. National Laws, Directives, Regulation and Debate’ in Working Papers: Biolaw in Europe, EU BIOMED II meeting June 1 - 4, 1996 in Copenhagen, Centre for Ethics and Law, 1996
  • (with J. RENDTORFF; P. HØILUND, and P. KEMP) ‘Om udkast til en europæisk bioetik-konvention’, in Studier i Etik og Ret, Nr. 1, Nov. 1995 (Concerning the Draft of the European Bioethics-Convention)
  • (with J. RENDTORFF; P. HØILUND and P. KEMP) ‘Bioetikkens grundlag. Overvejelser over kroppens betydning for bioetik og bioret’, in Philosophia, vol. 23, 1-2, 1994 (The Foundations of Bioethics. Reflections on the Significance of the Body in Bioethics and Biolaw)

5. Aristotle and Aquinas

  • ‘Thomas Aquinas om autenticitet, sandfærdighed og praktisk fornuft’, in Filosofiske Studier 18, Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Retorik, 1998 (Thomas Aquinas on Authenticity, Truthfulness and Practical Reason)
  • ‘Thomas Aquinas’ Personbegreb’, in Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift, 4/1998 (The Concept of Person in Thomas Aquinas)
  • ‘Retfærdighed, lighed og fornuft. Aristotles om retfærdighed i den Nikomakaeiske Etik’ in Studier i Etik og Ret, vol. 2, CER, Københavns Universitet, 1996 (Justice, Equality and Reason. Aristotle on Justice in the Nichomachean Ethics)
  • ‘Thomas Aquinas om følelserne’, in Filosofiske Studier 14, Institut for Filosofi, Pædagogik og Retorik, København 1994 (Thomas Aquinas on the Passions)

Public Lectures:

given in Copenhagen, Lunderskov, Roskilde, Frederiksberg (Denmark), Dublin, Maynooth, Lismullin, Malahide, Kilkenny, Galway, Limerick, Cork, Clonmacnoise, Belfast (Ireland), Valetta (Malta), Sun City (South Africa), San Francisco (USA), Oslo (Norway), Sheffield, London, Lincoln (UK), Vienna (Austria), Utrecht (The Netherlands), Leuven (Belgium), Dresden, Cologne (Germany), Turku (Finland) and Rome (The Vatican).

 

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