About Me
I am a philosopher based in Ireland, recently graduated with First Class Honours in Mathematics & Philosophy (SH Philosophy pathway) from Trinity College Dublin. I hold a deferred offer to pursue an MLitt at the University of St Andrews.
My research concerns philosophy of mathematics (infinity, cardinality, and foundations), metametaphysics (conceptual ideaalism, the language-metaohysics gap), and the philosophy of logic and language (particularly questions of existential import, quantification, and ambiguity). I have a secondary interest in ancient philosophy, especially Plato's metaphysics and Aristotle's logic, and their relation to the contemporary analytic tradition.
I am currently working on several papers and preparing for conference presentations in Universität Potsdam, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) and Maynooth University.
Presently, my two primary focuses are the philosophy of infinite sets/collections, and how C.S. Peirce might be compared to Cantor on this issue, as well as the epistemic signifigance of imagination (and its relation to modal metaphysics more broadly).
Curriculum Vitae
Research
Conferences
Accepted
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“On the Ambiguity and Functional Preservation of the Categorical Forms”
— Universality and Indifference: Is Logic Neutral?, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU). November 2026. -
“The Educational Value of Philosophy: A Case for Adding Philosophy to Ireland’s Leaving Certificate”
— Innaugral Conference Maynooth & Oxford Philosophical Society - 'What is the value of philosophy?', Maynooth University. November 2026. -
“Conceptual Idealism and the Language–Metaphysics Gap”
— Logic of Metaphysics, Universität Potsdam. September 2026.
Under Review
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“C. S. Peirce’s Importance in Improving Cantorian Set Theory”
— The 25th Amsterdam Colloquium, Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam. December 2026.
Contact
Email: robertmfinan7@gmail.com
Phone: +353 89 257 8392
