Department of Philosophy News

Registration is now open for our September CPD course in Big Data, AI & Ethics. The course will be online in the evenings.

The Department of Philosophy has been ranked in the Top 100 by Subject in the 2022 edition of the QS World University Rankings. Trinity College also placed in the top 100 universities worldwide.

The Department of Philosophy is introducing a new CPD course - Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Ethics - deadline to apply is April 20^th

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce a New Minor subject in Philosophy. A New Minor Subject is a new subject that may be taken up by Single Honours Students in their 2nd Year. Students may then choose to continue taking that subject in their 3rd and 4th Years and finish with a Major with Minor degree.

The Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin is pleased to announce CPD in Philosophical and Ethical Issues in Social Data Module

Applications are invited for an Assistant Professor (part-time, 50%) post funded under the Human Capital Initiative, Pillar 3, in The Department of Philosophy. Closing date: 12 noon on Monday, 9th August 2021.

The Department of Philosophy, School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, is seeking to appoint a Teaching Fellow who has research specialization in Philosophy of Mind and teaching competence in Philosophy of Science, to commence on 1st August 2021 or as soon as possible thereafter.

Congratulations to Dr Kenneth L. Pearce, Head of the Department of Philosophy and Ussher Assistant Professor in Berkeley Studies (Early Modern Philosophy) who has been elected to fellowship

Congratulations to IRC Postdoc Margaret Hampson in the Department of Philosophy who has accepted a permanent position as a Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy at the University of St Andrews, starting in September 2021

Professor Divers, who joins Trinity from Leeds University, is a world-renowned expert in the theory of possibility and necessity. He is the author of Possible Worlds (Routledge, 2002) and a recent past president of the Mind Association.

The Department of Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy invites applications for a 3 year teaching fellow in ethics, to begin immediately. Application deadline 21 August.

The Department of Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy invites applications for the post of Chair of Moral Philosophy - qualified candidates from any area of specialization are invited to apply.

Dr Preda, who joins Trinity from the University of Limerick, has research interests in the theories of rights, distributive justice, global justice, and justice in health. She was recently awarded a €1.3 million ERC Consolidator grant to lead the REAL – ‘Rights and Egalitarianism’ - research project.

The Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin is pleased to announce two fully funded PhD positions in analytic value theory, under the supervision of Dr Adina Preda, for the coming academic year. Closing date Friday July 26, 2019.

The Department of Philosophy is happy to announce a Workshop on Wisdom entitled "What is Wisdom?", with speakers from Ireland, UK, France and the US on Friday and Saturday May 3rd and 4th 2019 in the Loyola Institute.

Congratulations to Dr Lizzy Ventham, Teaching Fellow in Philosophy, for having her article on Morality and Desire published in the Irish Times .

Congratulations to Peter West from the Philosophy Department, who has recently won the prestigious Colin and Ailsa Turbayne International Prize Essay Competition for his article "Anti-Representationalism in Berkeley and Sergeant". This is the third time a scholar from Trinity College Dublin has won this prize.

Is trust in political institutions declining? How much does media bias affect electoral outcomes? And how can we re-establish trust where it has been lost? These are just some of the questions explored by economics, philosophy, political science and sociology academics at a recent public lecture.

Two Trinity graduates—Conor McGlynn and Conor O’Meara—are among the 147 individuals that comprise the 2020 cohort of the Schwarzman Scholars, which is one of the world’s leading graduate fellowship programmes, located at Schwarzman College at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

An interdisciplinary conference, Irish Philosophy in the Age of Berkeley, will take place in the Trinity Long Room Hub 5th-6th April 2019. Potential presenters should submit abstracts by 15 October 2018.

The inaugural William Lyons Prize in Philosophy was awarded to Ruairi Maguire for his MPhil. Ruairi has been awarded a scholarship to Oxford University to do a DPhil in political philosophy. 66% of the MPhil class went on to fully funded PhD studies.

Incoming philosophy academics Brian Carey, Alison Fernandes, Elizabeth Ventham and Ben White will strengthen research and teaching expertise in Trinity in the fields of political philosophy, ethics, metaphysics and philosophy of mind.

Evening course to consider crucial ideas about values and humankind´s place in the world which were developed by philosophers such as Aristotle and Nietzsche. Lectures run for 11 weeks from September 11, 2018.

Trinity philosophy graduates and penultimate/final year students are invited to mentoring events taking place from 25-27 Sept, 2018. It will be an excellent opportunity for current students to connect with alumni working in a range of sectors.