Placement Record
Graduates of the PhD programme in Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin have progressed to a range of academic and professional roles, both in Ireland and internationally. These include positions in universities, public and regulatory bodies, international organisations, and research-focused settings.
The table below lists PhD graduates by year, with details of their thesis topics, supervisors, and current or most recent positions. The record is updated periodically as new information becomes available.
| Name | Year of PhD Completion | Thesis Title | Supervisor | Current Position | Placement After Graduation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Didi Dong | 2025 | Erôs and Self-Formation: A Platonic Approach | Vasilis Politis | Government Officer | Beijing Government Office |
| Simone Nota | 2024 | Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and Wittgenstein | James Levine | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb |
| Samantha Fazekas | 2023 | Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Theory of Political Judgment | Lilian Alweiss | Teaching Fellow in Political Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin | Teaching Fellow in Political Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin |
| Takaharu Oda | 2022 | A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley’s Theory of Causation in De motu | Kenneth Pearce (first); Alison Fernandes (second) | Jiangsu University, China- Associate Professor | Southern University of Science and Technology, China |
| Jiayu Zhang | 2021 | Simple Bodies and Aristotle’s Explanation of Change: De Caelo and De Generatione et Corruptione | Vasilis Politis | Nankai University, China- Associate Professor | Nankai University, China |
| Tianqin Ge | 2020 | The relation between the what-it-is and the why-it-is in Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics, On the Parts of Animals, and Metaphysics | Vasilis Politis | Southeast University- Associate Professor | Southeast University |
| Zuzanna Hodgson-Gnatek | 2020 | Abstract objects and semantics: An essay on prospects and problems with abstraction principles as a means of justifying reference to abstract objects | James Levine | Gdańsk University, Poland- a permanent position | Shanxi University, China |
| Peter West | 2019 | Removing Rubbish and Laying Foundations: Berkeley’s Solution to the Sceptical Problem | Kenneth Pearce | Northeastern University London- Assistant Professor | Durham University, UK- Teaching Fellow |