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Alumnus, Philosophy
PhD Philosophy
University College Dublin School of Philosophy
Thesis Title: An Alternative Explanation of Mind in Nature
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James O'Shea
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About
Erik Sorem is currently a Senior Tutor of Philosophy at University College Dublin, where he just completed his PhD under the supervision of Dr. James O’Shea. His dissertation is entitled, “An Alternative Approach to Explaining Mind in Nature.”
Erik Sorem received his B.A. in Liberal Arts, which included a double major in philosophy and theology and a double minor in mathematics and science, from Thomas Aquinas College in 2003 – a classical order Liberal Arts school based on the “Great Books” and Socratic Method. In 2005, he completed his M.A. in philosophy at UCD and transferred to the PhD program soon after.
His particular area of specialization includes: epistemology (ancient to contemporary), history of philosophy (Greek philosophy to modern analytic philosophy), metaphysics (Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, and Kant), late antique and medieval philosophy (Augustine, Anselm, and Aquinas), philosophy of mind (focusing on theories of consciousness, intentionality, and the mind-body problem) and philosophy of science.
He has delivered several papers related to philosophy of mind at numerous conferences, including University of Edinburgh’s Philosophy Conference and the American Philosophical Association’s Pacific Division Meeting in 2008.
Apart from delivering various lectures and papers, Mr. Sorem has had the honor to form a successful philosophical society in California called Reason Together, which is still operating well today under the supervision of Ken Sands, co-founder and acting head of Reason Together.
While in California, Mr.Sorem spent a year teaching philosophy and logic as a lecturer at Fullerton College, but has since returned to Ireland to complete his dissertation and to continue tutoring philosophy at University College Dublin.
Having recently completed the PhD, he is hoping to find a post-doctoral program that will allow him to continue his research and enable him to publish more of his work.
