Maria Baghramian: Difference between revisions

|caption = Professor Maria Baghramian, UCD School of Philosophy

|region = [[Western Philosophyphilosophy]]

|era = [[Contemporary Philosophyphilosophy]]

|name = Maria Baghramian

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1954|3|21|df=y}}

|birth_place = [[Tehran]], Iran

|school_tradition = [[Analytic philosophy]]

|main_interests = [[Epistemology]], [[Relativismrelativism]], Trusttrust and Expertiseexpertise, Intractableintractable Disagreementdisagreement, American [[20th Centurycentury Philosophyphilosophy]], [[Philosophyphilosophy of Languagelanguage]]

'''Maria Baghramian''' (born 21 March 1954) is aFull Professor of American Philosophy, in the School of Philosophy,<ref>[http://swip-ireland.com/index.php/blog/ An Interview with Maria Baghramian - The Formation of a Philosopher]</ref> [[University College Dublin]] (UCD).<ref name="Academic profile at UCD School of Philosophy">[https://people.ucd.ie/maria.baghramian/ Academic profile at UCD School of Philosophy]</ref> and Professor II, at Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo (2023-2026). She was elected a member of the [[Royal Irish Academy]] (RIA) in 2010<ref>[http://www.ria.ie/About/Membership/Member-List.aspx Royal Irish Academy members]</ref> and a member of the[[Academia RIAEuropaea]] Councilin from 20152022.<ref>[https://www.ae-2018info.org/ae/Member/Baghramian_Maria Academia Europaea members, Baghramian]</ref> Baghramian has published 10twelve authored and edited books as well as articles and book chapters on topics in [[epistemology]] and twentieth century American Philosophy. She was the Chief Editor of the ''[[International Journal of Philosophical Studies]]'' (IJPS) from 2003- to 2013.<ref>[http://www.tandfonline.com/action/aboutThisJournal?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=riph20 International Journal of Philosophical Studies, IJPS]</ref> She was the co-editor of ''[[Contemporary Pragmatism]]'' (2014–2022).

BaghramianShe was the Head of the School of Philosophy (2011–2013, 2017-20192017–2019) and a co-director of the Post Graduate Programme in Cognitive Science at [[University College Dublin]], UCD (since 2000).<ref>[http://cogsci.ucd.ie/contact.php UCD Cognitive Science webpage]</ref>

She is the founder of the Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) – Ireland<ref>[http://www.swip-ireland.com/ Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) – Ireland]</ref> (2010) and was the president for two terms. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2013–14 and been a visiting fellow in [[Harvard]], [[MIT]], and [[Institut Jean Nicod]], [[École normale supérieure]], in Paris. She has also been a frequent visiting lecturer in China, where she was adviser to China Association of Philosophy of Language <ref>[http://wenku.baidu.com/view/012573292af90242a895e535.html Philosophy of Language in China]</ref> and in Armenia, <ref>[http://www.ysu.am/news/en/1382008212 Analytical philosophy Autumn school YSU]</ref> where she also contributes to the Yerevan Academy of Linguistics and Philosophy.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191130111512/https://mirrorspectator.com/2019/01/24/visiting-academics-offer-a-philosophical-approach-in-armenia/ YALP]</ref> In 2018, Baghramian was elected to the ExecutiveSteering Committee of the [[International Federation of Philosophical Societies]]. <ref name="FISP"> [https://www.fisp.org/board-and-steering-committee/ FISP]</ref> (2018-2024), and in the 2019 to the Programme Committee of the 202325th [[World Congress of Philosophy]] to be held in [[MelbourneRome]] in 2024. In 2021 she was elected a Member of the International Institute of Philosophy. Baghramian was the recipient of the of Highly Commended Researcher of the Year Award, Irish Research Council in 2022.

==Research Projectsprojects==

Baghramian was the principal investigator of a research project on the American Voice in Philosophy<ref>[http://www.american-voice.org/ American Voice in Philosophy]</ref> with funding from the [[Irish Research Council]]<ref>[http://www.research.ie/ Irish Research Council]</ref> and the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy.<ref>[https://american-philosophy.org SAAP]</ref>.

In 2015, she was awarded an Irish Research Council New Horizons funding for the interdisciplinary project on peer expert disagreement 'When Experts Disagree' (WEXD), <ref>[http://whenexpertsdisagree.ucd.ie WEXD]</ref> where her co-investigator was the astrophysicist [[Luke Drury (astrophysicist)|Luke Drury]].<ref>[https://allea.org/luke-drury/ Luke Drury]</ref>. Through her membership of the Royal Irish Academy, Baghramian has been an active participant of a [[British Academy]]/[[ALLEA]]<ref>[https://allea.org/ ALEA]</ref> working group on ''Truth, Trust and Expertise''. Three working papers<ref>[https://allea.org/truth-trust-and-expertise/ Three papers on ''Truth, Trust and Expertise'']</ref> by the groups were published in 2018 and 2019. She was also a member of a [[SAPEA]]<ref>[https://www.sapea.info SAPEA]</ref> 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''<ref>[https://www.sapea.info/wp-content/uploads/MASOS-ERR-online.pdf/ Report to European CommisionCommission]</ref> published in 2019.

In July 2019, Baghramian was awarded three million euro grant by the [[European Commission]][<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://dailynous.com/2019/08/02/philosopher-wins-e3-million-grant-project-public-trust-expert|title=Philosopher Wins €3 Million Grant for Project on Public Trust in Expert Opinion|date=2 August 2019}}</]ref> for a research project on "the role of science in policy decision making and the conditions under which people should trust and rely on expert opinion that shapes public policy." The project ''Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action'' (PEriTiA)<ref>[https://peritia-trust.eu PEriTia]</ref> runsran from 2020- to 2023 and hashad partners from universities and academies in the UK, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Armenia. She is a current member of SIDEM, Science and Democracy research Project<ref>[https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/democracy/research/groups/science-and-democracy/index.html SIDEM, Science and Democracy research Project]</ref> at the University of Oslo.

Maria Baghramian was born in [[Tehran]], [[Iran]], in an [[Armenians|Armenian]] family but moved to Ireland in 1979 where she has continued to live with her husband, the composer/musicologist and ethnomusicologist [[Hormoz Farhat]]. Their son, Robert Farhat, is a Talenttalent Developerdeveloper and Programmeprogramme Managermanager with the London Jazz Festival.[<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://serious.org.uk/people]|title = Meet the team}}</ref>

== Selected Publicationspublications ==

* ''Pragmatism and the European traditions: Encounters with analytical philosophy and phenomenology before the Great Divide''. With S. Marchetti (Eds.) (2017). RoutlegeRoutledge.

* ''Philosophy in the Twentieth Century: The Mingled Story of Three Revolutions''. With S. Marchetti. (2-17). Pragmatism and the European Traditions. 10-3010–30. Routledge.

* ''Relativism''. (2015) with A. Carter. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.<ref>{{Cite book|chapter-url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/relativism/|title=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|chapter=Relativism|year=2021|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref>

* ''Contemporary Pragamtism''. (2014-20192014–2019) (Eds). with John Shook. Volume 10-1410–14. Brill.

* ''Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity''. With Atracta Ingram. (Ed.) (2000) London/New York: Routledge.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IN3LY1A/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb.|title=Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity|date=25 February 2014|publisher=Routledge }}</ref> Translated into Chinese<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.books.com.tw/exep/prod/china/chinafile.php?item=CN10698391|title=多元論︰差異性哲學和政治學}}</ref>

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