Monographs
(2025) The Fidelity of Reason: A Phenomenological Metaphysics of Self, Nature and Divinity. Springer.
(2022) The Formation of the Modern Self: Reason, Happiness and the Passions from Montaigne to Kant. London: Bloomsbury, 252pp.
(2013) A Phenomenology of Christian Life: Glory and Night. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 252pp. Download PDF.
(2013) The Time of Revolution. Kairos and Chronos in Heidegger. London: Bloomsbury, 246pp. View PDF.
(1999) Zeit des Handelns und Möglichkeit der Verwandlung. Kairologie und Chronologie bei Heidegger im Jahrzehnt nach ‘Sein und Zeit’. Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 250pp.
Edited Collections
(2006) Violence, Victims, Justifications. Philosophical Approaches. London: Peter Lang, 251 pp. View sample.
Journal Articles
(2024) “The Unconditionality of Love: Value, Singularity and Sacrifice”, Philosophies. 10, 2, p. 35-45. download pdf
(2023) “The End of Time and the Possibility of World: Between Divinity and Nature”, Religions, 14(9), 115 download pdf
(2023) “Gewalt und Gewohnheit: Zwischen vergangenen Zukünften und gegenwärtigen Vergangenheiten [Violence and Habituation: Between Past Futures and Present Pasts]“, Phänomenologische Forschungen, 2021-2.
(2020) “Violent Times, the Horror of the Unspeakable and the Temporality of Religious Experience”, Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 53, 287–302. Download PDF.
(2019) “The Passionate Self and the Religiosity of Phenomena”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 33, No. 1, SPECIAL ISSUE: THE RELIGIOUS STRUCTURE OF PHENOMENA, pp. 56-77. Download PDF.
(2018) “Timely/Untimely: The Rhythm of Things and the Time of Life”, in Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 22, No. 2 (Fall 2018), pp. 178-200. Download PDF.
(2018) “A Phenomenology of the Infinite. Horizon, Faith and Love”, inJournal for Cultural and Religious Theory, VOL. 17, NO. 2, pp. 338-352. Download PDF.
(2018) “The Passion of Grace: Phenomenology and the Theological Re-turn” in Philosophy Today, Volume 62, Issue 1, pp. 119-136. Download PDF.
(2017) “Speaking after the phenomenon: the promise of things and the future of phenomenology”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, pp. 99-115. Download PDF.
(2015) Philosophical Conversations with Gary Madison”, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Fall 2015), pp. 123-127.
(2009) “Face and Flesh: Merleau-Ponty and Levinas concerning Desire”, Philosophy Today, vol. 34, pp. 244-249.
(2008) “Reduction, Externalism and Immanence in Husserl and Heidegger”, Synthese (2008), vol. 160 (3), pp. 375-395
(2007) “Kairological Phenomenology: World, the Political and God in the Work of Klaus Held”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol. 15 (3) pp. 395-413.
(2005)“Being Alive: The Place of Life in Merleau-Ponty and Descartes“, Chiasmi International, vol. 7, pp. 209-224.(2002) “Being and Ruination. Simmel and Heidegger on the Phenomenology of Ruins”, Philosophy Today. SPEP Supplement, pp. 10-18.
(2002) “The Sacred in Appearance: An Exploration of the Limits of Phenomenology”, Yearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society, vol. 2,pp. 64-72.
(1999) “The Time of History and the Responsibility of Philosophy: Heideggerian Reflections on the Origins of Philosophy”, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 166-181.
(1998) “Future or Future Past: Temporality between Praxis and Poiesis in Heidegger’s Being and Time”, Philosophy Today, vol. 42, no. 3 pp. 262-269.
(1993) “Violence, Reconciliation, Pluralism: A Critique of Irish Nationalism”, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies (1993), Spring, pp. 1-8.
(1992) “Truth as a Problem for Hermeneutics”, Philosophy Today, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 180-188.
Book Chapters
(2024) “Memory, Repetition and Anticipation: The Time of Melody and the Time to Come”, The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music, ed. by Jonathan De Souza, Benjamin Steege, and Jessica Wiskus. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(2023) “Who is the Self? Thin Selves, Narrative and the Limits of Sense” in Grundfragen hermeneutischer Anthropologie. Paul Ricœurs Werk im historischen Kontext: Existenz, Interpretation, Praxis, Geschichte, ed. by B. Leibsch. Baden Baden, Alber, 1751-77.
(2022) “Listening to Others: Music and the Phenomenology of Hearing”,Empathy, Intersubjectivity, and the Social World: The Continued Relevance of Phenomenology. Essays in Honour of Dermot Moran, ed. by: Anna Bortolan and Elisa Magrì. Berlin, de Gruyter, pp. 243-60.
(2019) “The Temporality of Violence: Destruction, Dissolution and the Construction of Sense” in C. Sternad (ed.): Philosophical Reflections on Violence and Meaning (Palgrave and McMillan), pp. 41-58. Download PDF.
(2018) “Traces of Endings: The Time of Last Things” in P. Fairfield & S. Geniusas: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology: Figures and Themes. Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 175-187. Download PDF.
(2017) “Givenness, Grace and Marion’s Augustinianism” in A. Calgano and S. Lofts: Breached Horizons. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. Download PDF.
(2016) “Religion” in C. Lawn and N. Keane (eds.) The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics. London: Blackwell, pp. 77-85. Download PDF.
(2016) with Ane Faugstand Aarø: “Cartesian Soul: Embodiment and Phenomenology in the Wake of Descartes”, in C. Elbsy & A. Massecar: Essays on Aesthetic Genesis Washington D.C.: University Press of America, pp. 43-65. Download PDF.
(2016) “Violence and Responsibility” in K. Breen and A. Fives: Philosophy and Public Matters. London: Palgrave, pp. 245-262. Download PDF.
(2015) “Love’s Conditions: Passion and the Practice of Philosophy” in A. Calcagno and D. Enns: Thinking about Love: Essays in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. University Park: Penn State University Press, pp. 81-97. Download PDF.
(2015) “Space, Time and the Articulation of a Place in the World: the Philosophical Context” in B. Richardson (ed.): Spatiality and Symbolic Expression. London: Palgrave, pp. 21-40. Download PDF.
(2012) “Sceptical Wisdom: Descartes, Pascal and the Challenge of Pyrrhonism” in R. Edmondson and K-H. Hülser: Practical Reasoning and Human Engagement: Language, Ethics and Action. London: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 245-266.
(2012) “The Political and Ethical Significance of Waiting: Heidegger and the Legacy of Thinking” in Halsall, F., Jansen , J. and Murphy, S. (eds.), Critical Communities and Aesthetic Practices: Dialogues with Tony O’ Connor on Society, Art and Friendship Springer Press, pp. 139-150.
(2011) “Religion and Theology” in Luft, S. and Overgaard, S.: Routledge Companion to Phenomenology, London: Routledge, pp. 473-482.
(2010) “Herrschaft, Gedenken und die Grenzen der Gegenwart” (with Dan Bradley) in Liebsch, B. (ed.):Versöhnendes Vergessen? Gedächtnis und Geschichte nach Ricœur Berlin: Akademie Verlag, pp. 151-162.
(2010) “Religion and Ethics” in Lawlor, L. (ed.) Responses to Phenomenology 1930-1960. Chesham, UK: Acumen, pp. 195-216; Reprinted in T. Stähler (ed.): Existentialism vol. 4. London Routledge, 2012, pp. 195–216
(2006) “On Provocation: Violence as Response” in [3] Violence, Victims, Justifications. Philosophical Approaches. London: Peter Lang, pp. 201-218.
(2006) “Afterword” in [3] Violence, Victims, Justifications. Philosophical Approaches. London: Peter Lang, pp. 219-242.
(2006) “Alterity and Divinity: A Response to Richard Kearney’s Gods, Strangers, Monsters” in Manoussakis, J (ed.) After God New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 155-164.
(2005) “Glory, Idolatry, Kairos: Marion and Heidegger on the Ontological Difference” in Cassidy, E. and Leask, I.: Givenness and God : questions of Jean-Luc Marion New York: Fordham University Press, pp. 69-86.
(2002) “Ruine als Werk. Die Grenze des Handelns als Urmoment der Geschichtlichkeit” inH Hüni & P. Trawney (eds.):Die erscheinende Welt Berlin: Duncker und Humblot, pp. 351-368.
(1995) “Nature as Other: a Hermeneutical Approach to Science” in B. Babich, D. Berghoffen and S. Glynn (eds.) Continental Perspectives in the Philosophy of Science Aldershot: Averbury, pp. 189-204.
Other Publications
“Irish Catholic Identity as Melancholy”, What does it Mean to be Irish Today? Conversations on the Ethics of Identity and Belonging Podcast, Listen Here
(2022) “Speaking of God: Philosophy and Theology Face to Face”, Syndicate Philosophy Symposium on Ryan G. Duns: Spiritual Exercises for a Spiritual Age, www.syndicate .network/symposia/theology/spiritual-excercises-for-a-secular-age/
(2020) “On Religion and Violence”, interview with Dr. Patrick O’Connor, Thales Well Podcast, Listen here.
(2015) “What is Philosophy of Religion?” in Philosophy of Religion: Big Question Philosophy for Scholars and Students, www.philosophyofreligion.org
“Heidegger, Politics, Phenomenology, Religion”, interview with Richard Marshall, https://www.3-16am.co.uk/articles/Heidegger-Politics-Phenomenology-Religion
(2014) “Why do you feel compelled to flee boredom?”, interview with Joe Humphreys, The Irish Times 27th June 2014. Dictionary/Encyclopaedia Entries
(2004) “Coffey, Thomas” in Tom Duddy (ed.): Dictionary of Irish Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 79-80.
(2004) “Ussher, Arnald Percival” in Tom Duddy (ed.): Dictionary of Irish Philosophers. Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, pp. 350-353.
(2004) “Halifax Colloquy: Between Being and God”, in Richard Kearney (ed.): Debates in Continental Philosophy New York: Fordham University Press
(2004) “Poetics and Imagination: An Interview with Richard Kearney”, Symposium (Journal of the Canadian Society for Hermeneutics) vol. 8, no.3, pp. 667-683.