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ProfessorMaeve Cooke

Full Professor

School of Philosophy

Orcid identifier0000-0002-3168-4375 (opens in a new tab)⁠
  • Full Professor
    School of Philosophy
  • 01 716 8352
  • University College Dublin, School of Philosophy, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Critical Social Theory; Political Philosophy; Philosophy of Law; Philosophy of Religion; Autonomy and Authority; Protest and Resistance; Theorizing the Anthropocene

GRANTS

  • GRANT
    Humboldt Research Award
    Alexander von Humboldt Foundation20 Oct 2025
    Lifetime Research Award
  • OTHER GRANT
    2024 (legacy) internal funding scheme
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2024 - 31 Mar 2029
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M,
    • McGuire J
  • GRANT
    Ethics and Politics in the Anthropocene
    Enterprise Ireland (EI)2 Dec 2019 - 1 Dec 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Explanation and Imagination: A Neo-Pragmatic Basis for Socio-Political Theorising
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2017 - 30 Sep 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Non-Secular Democracy: Public Reasoning Constitutional Law and Democratic Theory
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Oct 2017 - 31 Dec 2019
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Prepared for Every Fortune: Cynicism as an Analytical and Normative Perspective in Democratic Theory (CANT)
    Horizon 20201 Sep 2017 - 31 Aug 2020
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    A Critical Theory of Polical Violence
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2017 - 31 Dec 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Political Violence
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2016 - 31 Mar 2018
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    The UCD College of Human Sciences Research Funding Scheme
    University College Dublin (UCD)19 May 2015 - 30 Jun 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Conversations as Critique
    University College Dublin (UCD)15 May 2015 - 31 Dec 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Political Authority and Autonomy (A&A)
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Mar 2015 - 30 Nov 2015
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    The Place of Conscience in Democratic Dissent: Conscientious Objection Civil Disobedience and other Forms of Conscience-Based Protest
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 Apr 2014 - 30 Sep 2015
    People funded by this grant:
  • GRANT
    Encountering the Other
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Dec 2013 - 30 Nov 2016
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Transcendence in Political Philosophy
    University College Dublin (UCD)1 May 2013 - 31 Oct 2014
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Conscience in Contemporary Social and Political Life
    Irish Research Council (IRC)1 Nov 2012 - 30 May 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Knowing as Intimacy: The Aesthetics of Stanley Cavell
    Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Irchss)1 Oct 2011 - 30 Sep 2013
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Truth in Social and Political Theory (opens in a new tab)⁠
    Council for International Exchange of Scholars1 Sep 2011 - 31 May 2012
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M,
    • Cooke M,
    • Cooke M,
    • Cooke M,
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Re-conceiving Critical Theory with Cosmopolitan Intent
    Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (Irchss)1 Oct 2010 - 30 Sep 2011
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Forgiveness
    European Science Foundation (Esf)29 Sep 2010 - 1 Oct 2010
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cowley CT,
    • Cohen J,
    • Cooke M
  • GRANT
    Context and Critique: Rethinking the Idea of a Critical Social Theory
    Research Ireland1 Jan 2002
    People funded by this grant:
    • Cooke M