Answer the following question: What key details about william desmond -lrb- philosopher -rrb- can be extracted from the following bio? Bio: william desmond is an irish philosopher who has written on ontology , metaphysics , ethics , and religion . former president of the hegel society of america and the metaphysical society of america , desmond is professor of philosophy at the higher institute of philosophy at the katholieke universiteit leuven in belgium , and also at villanova university in pennsylvania . in his trilogy , '' being and the between '' , '' ethics and the between '' , and '' god and the between '' , desmond works out an entirely new and complete metaphysical/ontological philosophical system based on what he calls the potencies of being and the senses of being . his most original contribution in his metaphysics is the notion of the '' metaxological '' , which will be explained below . desmond 's program consists mainly in exploring the senses in which modernity has devalued being and what '' to be '' and '' the good '' might mean .
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- institutions is katholieke of ireland maynooth universiteit leuven , villanova university , national university- influences is aristotle , plato , hegel , kant- region is western philosophy- school tradition is continental , metaxology philosophy , history of philosophy , german idealism- awards is the award of the metaphysical society of america -lrb- 1994 -- prix 95 -rrb- cardinal mercier -lrb- 1995 -rrb- j.n. findlay- main interests is metaphysics philosophy of art ethics religion- name is william desmond- notable ideas is metaxology , fourfold-sense of being , intimate strangeness of being , intimate universal- era is 20th-century philosophy , contemporary philosophy- birth place is cork , ireland