Department of Philosophy News

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.