Maria Bahramian

Maria Baghramian is a Professor of Philosophy in the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo. She was also the founder and Co-Director of the Cognitive Science Programme at UCD.

Baghramian’s areas of research include Epistemology, Contemporary American Philosophy, and topics in the Philosophy of Science. Her publications include 14 authored and edited books, and over 150 articles and book chapters. In 2022, she was highly commended in the Irish Research Council Researcher of the Year Awards and was a finalist in UCD’s 2023 Research Impact Awards. Her major funded research projects include “When Experts Disagree (WEXD)”, funded by the Irish Research Council (2015-2018), and “Policy, Expertise, and Trust in Action (PERITIA)”, funded by EU Horizon 2020 (2020-2023), with funding of 3 million euros.

In July 2024, she was awarded a European Research Area (ERA) Chair with funding of 2.5 million euros to set up and direct a Center for Ethics in Public Affairs at the American University of Armenia. She has also been an active member of research working groups of the All-European Academies (ALLEA), its science and policy mechanism, SAPEA, and the British Academy. Baghramian has held visiting positions at MIT, the University of Yerevan, Institut Jean Nicod in Paris, and various Chinese universities. She was a Fulbright Senior Fellow at Harvard in 2014 and a Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies in 2023. She is a member of the Royal Irish Academy, the International Institute of Philosophy, Academia Europaea, and a Fellow of the Armenian Society of Fellows.

She was also the founder and two-term President of the Society for Women in Philosophy, Ireland (SWIP-I). She is currently a member of the steering committee, the program committee, and the gender committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies and serves on the Internationalisation Committee of the American Philosophical Association.