Philosophy News 2013-2014

The Department of Philosophy was honoured to host Professor David Chalmers (ANU, NYU) who delivered the 2014 Donnellan Lectures in Philosophy on the topic 'Structuralism, Space, and Skepticism'.

The Department of Philosophy would like to congratulate Yasuaki Nakano for successfully defending his PhD thesis on Ideas, Relations and Signs: 'Intuition' and 'Symbolic Substitution' in Berkeley's Theory of Knowledge of Nature. The thesis was examined by Professors Margaret Atherton and Tom Stoneham. Professors David Berman and Paul O'Grady were the supervisors.

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to congratulate William Michael Foley (PPES), Brigid Eileen Francis-Devine (PPES), Neil Murphy (PPES), Stephen Stack (PPES), Alexandra Bridgit Trant (PPES), Julian Rene Graef (Philosophy & Russian) and Louis Mark Paul O Neill Mahon (Mathematics & Philosophy) who were elected Scholars of the College at a ceremony on Trinity Monday, 7 April 2014.

One hundred years of Berkeley scholarship at Trinity was marked at an international conference organised by the Department of Philosophy.

Applications are invited for one, or more, fully funded (Home/EU) Graduate Research studentship in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin. The deadline for applications is 10 March 2014. Please contact Lilian Alweiss alweissl@tcd.ie for further details.

The Department of Philosophy congratulates Ph.D. candidate Yasuaki Nakano. Yasuaki's paper, 'The Language of God and Laws of Nature in Berkeley's Philosophy' was awarded a prize by the Japanese Society for British Philosophy. This prize is designed to encourage young Japanese scholars who are working in the field of classical British or contemporary analytic philosophy to develop original research.