1. Maria Baghramian was born on 21 March 1954 and is a philosopher and historian of philosophy.
15 Facts About Maria Baghramian
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Maria Baghramian was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010 and a member of Academia Europaea in 2022.
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Maria Baghramian was the Chief Editor of the International Journal of Philosophical Studies from 2003 to 2013.
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Maria Baghramian graduated from Queen's University Belfast in Philosophy and Social Anthropology with a Double First.
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Maria Baghramian received a PhD from Trinity College Dublin in Philosophy of Logic under the supervision of Timothy Williamson.
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Maria Baghramian has taught in TCD and since 1990 in UCD.
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Maria Baghramian was the Head of the School of Philosophy and a co-director of the Post Graduate Programme in Cognitive Science at University College Dublin, UCD.
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Maria Baghramian has been a frequent visiting lecturer in China, where she was adviser to China Association of Philosophy of Language and in Armenia, where she contributes to the Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy.
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In 2018, Maria Baghramian was elected to the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies, and in 2019 to the Programme Committee of the 25th World Congress of Philosophy to be held in Rome in 2024.
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Maria Baghramian's publications focus on topics from contemporary epistemology, including relativism and the problem of intractable disagreements, to topics on trust and expertise.
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Maria Baghramian publishes on contemporary American philosophy, particularly on Quine, Putnam, Davidson and Rorty.
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Maria Baghramian was the principal investigator of a research project on the American Voice in Philosophy with funding from the Irish Research Council and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.
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Maria Baghramian was a member of a SAPEA advisory group, responsible for a report to the European Commission's Science Advisory Mechanism on Making Sense of Science Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Complexity published in 2019.
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Maria Baghramian is a current member of SIDEM, Science and Democracy research Project at the University of Oslo.
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Maria Baghramian was born in Tehran, Iran, in an Armenian family but moved to Ireland in 1979 where she has continued to live with her husband, the composer and ethnomusicologist Hormoz Farhat.