Mahon McCann is an Irish philosophy PhD and part-time lecturer based in Dublin. He holds a BA in Philosophy & Economics from University College Dublin and an MA in English from Queen’s University Belfast. He is currently employed as a part-time lecturer and PhD candidate at the Dublin City University Institute of Ethics. He was awarded the DCU School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music Scholarship in 2022 for his research on the ethical issues of social media companies' commodification of user attention, and his research papers are forthcoming in the Springer journals Science & Engineering Ethics and Ethics & Information Technologies. His research has been presented at numerous academic conferences and events, such as DCU’s FUJO conference (2025), the European Network for Academic Integrity conference (2025), DCU Ethics and Privacy Week (2024), the Irish Philosophical Societies Autumn Seminar series (2024), and the 30th annual Vincentian Business Ethics Conference (2023). Outside of academia, his work focuses on the ‘meaning crisis’ in the West, and he hosts a popular podcast where he interviews leading thinkers on these issues, like Iain McGilchrist, John Verveake, Anna Lembke. His podcast on the meaning crisis has ranked in the top ten for self-improvement and education in Ireland and in the top one hundred in Sweden, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Finland, Belgium, and Turkey.