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Alexander, a graduate of University Keith studied Mental and Moral Science
of St Andrews and Oxford University, at Trinity College Dublin, and holds an MA
is Research Fellow in Ecclesiastical History and a PhD in Philosophy from The Univer-
and Historical Theology of the Early Irish sity of Dublin ("'%+). He also holds a HDip
Church at Trinity College, Dublin. He has and an MSc in Computer Science from
held Research Fellowships at the Aus trian Uni versity College Dublin ("'""). He has
Academy of Sciences, Vienna; the Univer- written about the philosophy of arti fi cial
sity of St Andrews; and the Insti tute for intelligence; medical epistemology;

Advanced Study, Princeton. His inter ests phil os ophy of language and linguistics;
include: the inter-relationship between computational philology; Jerrold J. Katz;

mon as tic groups and secular elites in the Ludwig Wittgenstein; and Heraclitus.
Early Middle Ages; the cult of the saints in He was an Adjunct Assistant Professor,
the Early and High Middle Ages; medieval in the Depart ment of Philosophy, Trinity
hagio gra phy and its manuscript transmis- College Dublin ("'%-–"'), and was the
sion; and the Irish mon astic diaspora in coordi n ator for the inaugural year of the
Europe in the Middle Ages. His research History, Philos ophy, and Ethics of Science
project, Savage/Saint Island: Imagin ing module for under graduate science stu -
Ireland and the Irish from Classical Antiquity dents. He was a Demonstrator in the
to the Anglo-Norman Conquest explores School of Computer Science, University
the development of Irish ethnic identity College Dublin ("'"%–""). During "'""–
and the perception of Ireland/the Irish "&, he was an Assistant Lecturer in the
up to the %&th century. His book Jonas Depart ment of Philosophy, May nooth
of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus: University, teaching modules on ana lytic
Sanctity and Community in the Seventh philosophy, epistemology, phil osophy of
Century was published by OUP in "'%*). the digital age; he was also a coor di nator
He co-edited St Sunniva: Irish Queen, for the BSc in Computa tional Thinking.
Norwegian Patron Saint, with Alf Tore
Hommedal and Åslaug Ommundsen,
(Alvheim og Eide Akademisk Forlag,
Bergen, "'"%).

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