Andrew Parrish

Address: St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland, W23 TW77

Phone: +353 (0) 877-214-203 (WhatsApp) | +1 276-905-4996 (US)

Email: andrew.parrish.2022@spcmail.ie

Education

PhD Studies in Philosophy - St. Patrick’s University, Maynooth, Ireland May/June 2025

“Rediscovering the Boundaries of Pure Reason: An Archaeology of Kant’s Critical Phenomenology”

Supervisor: Dr. Gaven Kerr

MA in Philosophy – Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA April 2021

“The Ironic Commitment: A Second Look at Jonathan Lear’s A Case for Irony” summa cum laude

BA in Philosophy – Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski, Lublin, Poland June 2015

(on the metaphysics of John Paul II’s ‘Osoba I Cyzn’/“Person and Act”) summa cum laude

Research

Publications:

“Emerson, Kant, and the ‘Call of the Wild’” September 2024

In preparation for collected volume on Ralph Waldo Emerson, to be published by Routledge

“Kant on the Beauty of Prose” October 2024

Accepted for publication in collected volume of “Philosophical Cartographies”, Tirant lo Blanch.

Conferences/Presentations:

“The Transcendental Subject and Unconscious History: A Kantian Meditation” April 2024

14th Int’l Kant Congress – Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

“Transcendental Idealism as Intentional Phenomenology” April 2024

Lecture by invitation to the Metaphysical Society of Trinity College, Dublin

“Hospitality and Pilgrimage in Gabriel Marcel” March 2023

Journées Doctorales et Postdoctorales – Institut Catholique de Toulouse

“An Equal and Opposite Reaction: Newtonian Physics and Theology” April 2023

Science and Divine Action Conference – St. Patrick’s University

“Kant and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence” November 2022

Postgraduate Research Seminar - St. Patrick’s University

“Moral Certainty and Merleau-Ponty’s Gestalt Theory of Perception” April 2022

Irish Theological Association Emerging Scholars Forum – Dublin City University

Experience

Lecturer in Philosophy – Priory Institute, Tallaght, Ireland Spring 2024

MA course – “Thinking and Talking about God”

Full responsibility – examinations and grades; texts-based seminar format (Aquinas); 3 students

Guest Lecturer in Philosophy – St Patrick’s Pontifical University, Maynooth, Ireland Spring 2024

“Philosophy 126: Aesthetics”

Substitute teacher for one-day lecture on Kantian aesthetics. Medium class size (20-30 students)

Lecturer in Philosophy – Dominican House of Studies, Dublin, Ireland Fall 2022-Spring 2024

“Introduction to Ancient Philosophy and Metaphysics”

Full responsibility – examinations and grades; 2 years of experience;

texts-based seminar format (Presocratics, Plato and Aristotle); small class size (3-5 students)

Lecturer in Philosophy – Priory Institute, Tallaght, Ireland Spring 2023

“Themes in Early Modern Philosophy” – 1 semester

Full responsibility; lecture format with textbook; medium class size (15-20 students)

External Tutor – St. Patrick’s University, Maynooth, Ireland Fall 2021-present

“Christian Anthropology”

Lectures and marking assignments; medium class size (20-30 students)

Private Tutor 2021-2024

Course readings: Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Boethius, Porphyry, Marcus Aurelius

Full responsibility; teaching and evaluation; seminar format

Other Qualifications

Scholarships and Awards:

Erasmus+ Scholarship for exchange year at Institut Catholique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France, 2024-25

Administrative Skills:

Department videographer: filmed, edited and produced video recordings of two academic conferences

Assistant conference organizer: “The Future of Christian Thinking”, St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, 2022

Languages:

German: CEFR B1 French: CEFR A1 oral/spoken, B1 reading