Dr Áine Mahon is Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education in the School of Education at University College Dublin. Her first monograph, The Ironist and the Romantic: Reading Richard Rorty and Stanley Cavell, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014. With Andrew Taylor of the University of Edinburgh, she has edited Stanley Cavell, Literature and Film: The Idea of America (Routledge, 2013); and with Clara Fischer of Queen’s University Belfast, she has edited Philosophical Perspectives on Contemporary Ireland (Routledge, 2019). Her most recent book, The Promise of the University: Reclaiming Humanity, Humility, and Hope was published by Springer in 2021.