Maria Baghramian is a professor of philosophy at the University College Dublin.
Education
Baghramian graduated from Queen's University Belfast in Philosophy and Social Anthropology (1983) with a Double First. She received a Doctor of Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin (Trinity College, Dublin) in Philosophy of Logic under the supervision of Timothy Williamson (1990).
Career
Since 2003 she has been the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies (IJPS). Baghramian has taught in Trinity College, Dublin and since 1991 in University College Dublin. She is the Head of the School of Philosophy (2011-2013) and a co-director of the Post Graduate Programme in Cognitive Science at University College Dublin (since 2000). She is an adviser to China Association of Philosophy of Language and Chairperson of the panel of Philosophy and Theology at the Undergraduate Awards.
She has organised the Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and Mind Association conferences in 1996 and 2010.
She is the principal investigator of a research project on the American Voice in Philosophy with the Irish Research Council. In the academic year 2013-2014, she was a visiting Philosophy Fellow and Fulbright Scholar at the Department of Philosophy, Harvard (February-July 2014), a visiting Scholar at Institut Jean Nicod, École normale supérieure, in Paris (Autumn 2013), a lecturer at the 2013 Autumn School in Yerevan State University and at the 2014 Oxford/Yale Summer School in Philosophy in China.
Politics
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.
Views
Her main research areas are philosophy of language, relativism and rationality, 20th-century American Philosophy (Putnam, Davidson, Rorty, Quine), pragmatism, philosophy of mind, Cognitive Science.
Membership
She was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010.