I’m a dual citizen of Ireland and Canada, and I currently live on beautiful Bowen Island, near Vancouver.
Note: For those mystified about how to say my name, “Oisín” is pronounced as follows: Ŭsh′ēn, or [′ʃi:nʲ], or (less technically) Uh-sheen.
I’m a dual citizen of Ireland and Canada, and I currently live on beautiful Bowen Island, near Vancouver.
Note: For those mystified about how to say my name, “Oisín” is pronounced as follows: Ŭsh′ēn, or [′ʃi:nʲ], or (less technically) Uh-sheen.
I’m a Ph.D. Candidate in the philosophy department at the University of British Columbia, working under the supervision of Paul Russell.
In the fall of 2011, I was a visiting graduate fellow at The Sage School of Philosophy at Cornell University, and I’m currently a visiting short-term scholar in the Philosophy Department at the The University of Arizona.
My main area of interest is philosophy of agency. In particular, I address questions about (1) the abilities of (human) agents, (2) the abilities such agents take themselves to have, and (3) the nature of the first-person experience of agency.
I’m also interested in related questions in philosophy of mind and to do with personal identity.
My very latest interest is experimental philosophy (x-phi). At the moment, I’m interested in both the practice of x-phi and its theoretical motivations.
Finally, I ask questions about moral responsibility, and I have connected interests in political philosophy and philosophy of law (e.g., equality of opportunity, theories of punishment).