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 | Placement After Graduation | Current Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Didi Dong | 2025 | Erôs and Self-Formation: A Platonic Approach | Vasilis Politis | Beijing Government Office | Government Officer |
| 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 |
| Takaharu Oda | 2022 | A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley’s Theory of Causation in De motu | Kenneth Pearce (first); Alison Fernandes (second) | Southern University of Science and Technology, China | Jiangsu University, China- Associate Professor |
| Jiayu Zhang | 2021 | Simple Bodies and Aristotle’s Explanation of Change: De Caelo and De Generatione et Corruptione | Vasilis Politis | Nankai University, China | Nankai University, China- Associate Professor |
| 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 | Southeast University- Associate Professor |
| 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 | Shanxi University, China | Gdańsk University, Poland- a permanent position |
| Peter West | 2019 | Removing Rubbish and Laying Foundations: Berkeley’s Solution to the Sceptical Problem | Kenneth Pearce | Durham University, UK- Teaching Fellow | Northeastern University London- Assistant Professor |