Adam Loughnane is Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) 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). ‍

APPLICANT:
- SAFE (DAAD, CampusFrance) 2024 (€129,000)   
- Toshiba Foundation 2023 (€23,000)
- Japan Foundation 2023 (€5,000)                                   
- Enterprise Ireland ERC Support 2023 (€15,000)            

CO-APPLICANT:
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada 2017 ($300,000)