{{Short description|Irish academic}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Patrick Masterson | honorific_suffix = OMRI | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=y|1936|10|19}} | birth_place = Dublin, Ireland | death_date = | death_place = | alma_mater = University College Dublin; University of Leuven (Ph.D.) | other_names = | known_for = | occupation = educator {{Infobox officeholder | embed = yes | office = President of the European University Institute | order = 4th | predecessor =Émile Noël | successor = Yves Mény | term_start = 1994 | term_end = 2001 }} }}

'''Patrick Masterson''' {{post-nominals|post-noms=OMRI}} (born 1936 in Dublin) is a former president of University College Dublin<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucd.ie/president/pastpresidents/patrickmasterson/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150118053236/http://www.ucd.ie/president/pastpresidents/patrickmasterson/ |archive-date=2015-01-18 |title=UCD President's Office: Patrick Masterson}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Dublin university president aims to lure foreigners |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59271428.html?dids=59271428:59271428&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+29%2C+1991&author=Kevin+Cullen%2C+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+%28pre-1997+Fulltext%29&desc=Dublin+university+president+aims+to+lure+foreigners&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104120856/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/boston/access/59271428.html?dids=59271428:59271428&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+29,+1991&author=Kevin+Cullen,+Globe+Staff&pub=Boston+Globe+(pre-1997+Fulltext)&desc=Dublin+university+president+aims+to+lure+foreigners&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 November 2012 |work=The Boston Globe |date=29 September 1991 |accessdate=13 November 2010 }}</ref> and the European University Institute.<ref>{{cite news |title=Survey eyes PhD career paths |url=http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storyCode=100080&sectioncode=26 |work=Times Higher Education Supplement |date=5 July 1996 |accessdate=13 November 2010 }}</ref>

== Biography ==

He has held numerous appointments in academia, and has authored several books and publications on philosophy and religion. He has written a 'comic campus novel', ''Quality Time at St Chinian'' (2017).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Quality Time at St Chinian: a humorous take on higher education |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/quality-time-at-st-chinian-a-humorous-take-on-higher-education-1.3171494}}</ref>

He received a First class degree from University College and then took a Ph.D. at Leuven in 1962.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

He was a member of the staff of University College Dublin prior to being appointed Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Sociology in 1980, Registrar in 1983 and President from 1986 until leaving in December 1993 to become Principal of the European University Institute, Florence, a post he held from 1994 to 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Patrick Masterson |url=https://www.ucd.ie/president/about/universityhistory/pastpresidents/drpatrickmasterson/}}</ref>

He was Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Ireland from 1987 to 1988.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

He is emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion at University College Dublin.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

==Publications==

* {{cite book |title= Atheism and Alienation: A Study of the Philosophical Sources of Contemporary Atheism |publisher= Gill and Macmillan |place= Dublin & London |year= 1971 |url=https://archive.org/details/atheismalienatio0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up |url-access= registration |via= Internet Archive}} * The Sense of Creation - Experience and the God Beyond (Ashgate 2008, {{ISBN|978-0-7546-6426-0}}).<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1111/j.1741-2005.2009.01283_3.x|title=THE SENSE OF CREATION: EXPERIENCE AND THE GOD BEYOND�by Patrick Masterson|journal=New Blackfriars|volume=90|issue=1027|pages=388–390|year=2009|last1=Barden|first1=Garrett}}</ref> * With Seamus Heaney: Articulations: poetry, philosophy, and the shaping of culture (Royal Irish Academy, 2008) * Approaching God: Between Phenomenology and Theology (Bloomsbury 2013, {{ISBN|9781623563080}}). * Quality Time at St Chinian (Liberties Press, 2017)<ref>{{cite web|last1=Masterson|first1=Paddy|url=http://www.libertiespress.com/new-products/quality-time-at-st-chinian|website=Liberties Press|publisher=Liberties Press|accessdate=28 May 2017|title=Quality Time at St Chinian by Paddy Masterson}}</ref>

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