Research the thought
of Edith Stein
The Edith Stein Research Group provides a forum in which scholars and students of Edith Stein (and related thinkers) explore areas of research together with one another—thus enabling research to progress through constructure feedback and exposure to areas of research currently underway. Given Stein’s expansive philosophical formation and interests, the research group explores themes in the the following areas: phenomenology, metaphysics, ontology, anthropology, ethics, pedagogy, and epistemology, as well as questions of method and the relation of philosophy and the Christian faith together with its theology.
Dr. Mette Lebech is lecturer in philosophy at Maynooth University, Ireland. She holds her degrees from the Universities of Copenhagen, Louvain-la-neuve and Leuven. She has taught in Maynooth University since 1998 and before that for 3 years at the University of Copenhagen, where she also was a member of the Centre for Ethics and Law. She has worked principally on the themes of Human Dignity and the Philosophy of Edith Stein. She is past founding President of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES) and Editor of Edith Stein Studies, a book series with Bloomsbury Publishing.
Dr. Robert McNamara is lecturer in philosophy and department head at St. Patrick’s Pontifical University, Ireland, adjunct professor at Franciscan University of Steubenville, USA, while also tutoring periodically at the ITI Catholic University, Austria. Robert is an associate series editor of Edith Stein Studies, an associate scholar of the Hildebrand Project, and a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Man and Woman. Having studied physics, computing, philosophy, and theology, Robert brings a multidisciplinary approach to his work while exploring anthropological and metaphysical themes in ancient, medieval, and phenomenological thinkers, with a defined focus on philosophical personalism in the Christian tradition. He currently resides in Carlow, Ireland, with his wife, Caroline, and their five children.