Assoc ProfessorDanielle Petherbridge

Dr Petherbridge is Director of the UCD Centre for Ethics in Public Life (http://www.ucd.ie/cepl/)

Her primary research interests include phenomenology and social philosophy, medical humanities and ethics. She writes in the area of phenomenology and illness, critical phenomenology, and social philosophy (particularly theories of self/personhood, intersubjectivity, recognition theory and vulnerability). She is currently working on a research project on phenomenological approaches to dementia and mental illness, and is PI of an Irish Research Council New Foundations funded project BodyDementia.

Dr Petherbridge was a team member of the EU Funded Horizon 2020 grant Policy, Expertise and Trust (PERITIA) and co-founder of Health, Ethics and Narrative Ireland.

Her book publications include Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters (2017; with Luna Dolezal), The Critical Theory of Axel Honneth (2013), Axel Honneth: Critical Essays (2011). She is currently working on two projects: one, on attention, affection and perception entitled 'When is One Recognizable'; two, a book project entitled 'Encountering the Other', which provides an examination of theories of intersubjectivity specifically in social philosophy and phenomenology.

From 2013-2015, she was IRC Marie Curie international research fellow located in the Department of Philosophy, Columbia University, New York before taking the position of Assistant Professor in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin in 2016. Previously Dr Petherbridge was awarded an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship for a study on Axel Honneth. She has published Body/Self/Other: The Phenomenology of Social Encounters with Luna Dolezal and is currently working on an edited collection on The Phenomenology of Belonging.

She teaches primarily in Phenomenology, European Philosophy and Medical Humanities.