Philip McShane

Philip McShane (18 February 1932 - July 2020)[1] was an Irish philosopher and mathematician. He was born in Baileboro, Co. Cavan.[2] When the McShane family moved to Dublin, Philip went to O'Connell School. He continued his education while training as a Jesuit at University College Dublin (BSc and MSc), St Stanislaus College, Tullabeg (Lic. Phil), Heythrop College (STL) and Campion Hall, Oxford (D.Phil).[3] He was ordained a Jesuit in 1963, and spent 25 years in the order before leaving the priesthood in the 1980's.[4] He lectured in Mathematics in UCD, in Philosophy in the Milltown Institute, and Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. Dr. McShane served as visiting fellow in religious studies at Lonergan College, Concordia University, Montreal.

In 1975, along with Conn O'Donovan, he founded The Dublin Lonergan Centre, in Milltown Park, Dublin.[5]

Publications
  • 'The Foundations of Mathematics' by Philip McShane SJ, The Modern Schoolman, XL, May 1963.
  • 'Towards Self-Meaning', by Philip McShane and Garrett Barden, Gill, Dublin, 1968.
  • 'Music That Is Soundless', by Philip McShane SJ, Milltown Press, Dublin, 1968.
  • 'Randomness, Statistics and Emergence', by Philip McShane SJ, Macmillan and University of Notre Dame Presses, 1970.
  • 'Plants and Pianos: Two Essays in Advanced Methodology', by Philip McShane SJ, Milltown Press, Dublin, 1971.
  • 'Wealth of Self and Wealth of Nations', by Philip McShane SJ, Exposition Press, New York, 1973.
  • 'The Shaping of the Foundations', by Philip McShane, University Press of America, 1976.
  • 'Lonergan’s Challenge to the University and the Economy', by Philip McShane, University Press of America, 1980.
  • 'Process: Introducing Themselves to Young Christian Thinkers', by Philip McShane, Mt. St. Vincent Press, 1990.
  • 'Economics for Everyone: Das Jus Kapital', by Philip McShane, Commonwealth Press, 1996.
  • 'A Brief History of Tongue', by Philip McShane, Axial Press, Halifax, 1998.
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References
  1. "Philip McShane".
  2. Philip McShane The First Forty Years by Conn O'Donovan, Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis 3 (2003): 33-54.
  3. Philip McShane Atlas of Irish Mathematicians.
  4. Short Notices Irish Jesuits.
  5. The Lonergan Centre Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy.
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