Adam Loughnane is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College Cork and Co-Director of the Irish Institute of Japanese Studies. His research and teaching centre on the phenomenological and aesthetic traditions of Europe and Asia. Focusing on French, German and Japanese philosophies, Adam explores themes such as non-theistic conceptions of faith, phenomenological accounts of motion, perception, and expression, language (apophatic, poetic), as well as intercultural philosophical methodology. His monograph "Nishida and Merleau-Ponty: Artistic Expression as 'Motor-Perceptual faith,'" (SUNY 2019) won the European Network of Japanese Philosophy book prize (2023). Adam co-edited Tetsugaku Companions to Ueda Shizuteru (Springer, 2023) and will soon publish a monograph Phenomenology of Tea: A Dialogue on Japanese Aesthetics as part of Bloomsbury’s World Philosophies series (2025). His work in intercultural phenomenology and aesthetics has been published in Philosophy East and West, Comparative and Continental Philosophy, The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, Performance Philosophy, Polylog, and the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Adam is General Editor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Routledge) and Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Japanese Philosophy (Chisokudō). ‍

Japanese Philosophy, 'Kyoto School', Continental Philosophy, Phenomenology, Aesthetics, East-West Comparative Philosophy, Intercultural Philosophy, Comparative Aesthetics, Existentialism, Existential-Phenomenology, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Nishida, Ueda, Dōgen, Expression, Motor-Perception, Faith

CURRENT PHD STUDENTS David Walsh - "The Entanglement of Art, Life, and Entrainment: A Dialogue Between Alva Noë and Nishida Kitarō" Elodie Martin - "The Japanese Tea Ceremony as a Site of Feminist Emancipation" Khalif Vernon - "Recognizing Hope: Phenomenology and the Political Theology of Revolution" Roy Wroth - "Merleau-Ponty's Social Spatiality" Amir Shahhosseini Angas - "Merleau-Ponty and Pallasmaa: Bodily Experience in Architectural Phenomenology of Blindness" John Martin Thompson - "Concept as Material: A Materialist Analysis of the Concept in Conceptual Art 1965-72" PAST PHD/MA STUDENTS Lan Ying Rudi Capra Lee Copson Lan Yu Tianhao Fang David Walsh Garrett Tobin