DrElmar Unnsteinsson

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of Philosophy

  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of Philosophy
  • 01 716 8125
  • University College Dublin, School of Philosophy, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

I received my PhD in philosophy at the City University of New York, Graduate Center (CUNY) in 2015. Since then I have been employed at University College Dublin (as Teaching Fellow and then Postdoc) and the University of Iceland (as Principal Investigator). I work on topics in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, history of analytic philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of linguistics, and cognitive science. As of 2020 I am a Lecturer/Assistant Professor - Ad Astra Fellow at UCD.

I am currently working on a book developing an intentionalist theory of reference and on papers on insincerity, self-deception, inner speech, and fragmentational theories of mind.

My papers have been published in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Mind and Language, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Inquiry, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Synthese, British Journal for the History of Philosophy, and others.

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Lecturer/Assistant Professor - Ad Astra Fellow
    University College Dublin, Ireland1 Jan 2020
  • IRC Postdoctoral Fellow
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2016 - 4 Sep 2018
  • Teaching and Research Fellow
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2015 - 30 Jun 2016

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Principal Investigator
    University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland1 Sep 2016
  • Graduate Teaching Fellow
    Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, United States1 Sep 2010 - 4 Jun 2013

DEGREES

  • BA
    University of Iceland
  • Cert of CPD Univ Teaching & Learning, Cert of CPD Univ Teaching & Learning
    University College Dublin
  • MA
    City University of New York Graduate Center
  • MPhil
    City University of New York Graduate Center
  • PhD
    City University of New York Graduate Center
  • Prof Dip University Teaching & Learning, Professional Diploma University Teaching and Learning
    University College Dublin