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What does life after a Philosophy degree look like? Our alumni panel last week brought together graduates from law, IT, government, education & the creative industries to share their career paths with students. Thanks to our alumni, TDA, TCD Careers & all who joined us!
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November 17, 2025 at 10:28 AM
What does life after a Philosophy degree look like? Our alumni panel last week brought together graduates from law, IT, government, education & the creative industries to share their career paths with students. Thanks to our alumni, TDA, TCD Careers & all who joined us!
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✨ New research from the Department.
"Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social, published in @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social, November 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
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"Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social, published in @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social, November 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/11/06/a...
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
✨ New research from the Department.
"Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social, published in @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social, November 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/11/06/a...
"Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social, published in @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social, November 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/11/06/a...
Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @rug.nl to the #Philosophy Colloquium later today for his talk, ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence’.
More on this term’s series:
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More on this term’s series:
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November 5, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @rug.nl to the #Philosophy Colloquium later today for his talk, ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence’.
More on this term’s series:
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More on this term’s series:
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✨🎓 Thinking about postgraduate study in philosophy? Applications are now open for Trinity’s MPhil in Philosophy. Explore course details and funding options here 🔽
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November 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
✨🎓 Thinking about postgraduate study in philosophy? Applications are now open for Trinity’s MPhil in Philosophy. Explore course details and funding options here 🔽
www.tcd.ie/philosophy/p...
#philosophy #philsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
www.tcd.ie/philosophy/p...
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✨ Delighted to have Dr Corine Besson from @sussex.ac.uk with us for today’s Philosophy Colloquium, where she will speak on ‘Rule-Following, Particularism and The Particular-First View of Deductive Reasoning’.
More on the series here:
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More on the series here:
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October 22, 2025 at 8:53 AM
✨ Delighted to have Dr Corine Besson from @sussex.ac.uk with us for today’s Philosophy Colloquium, where she will speak on ‘Rule-Following, Particularism and The Particular-First View of Deductive Reasoning’.
More on the series here:
🔗 tinyurl.com/mpscjhm2
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More on the series here:
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Hannah Arendt Today, co-organised by our Teaching Fellow Sam Fazekas, runs 31 Oct–5 Dec and features early-career researchers exploring Arendt’s political thought.
✨ Free and open to all.
Full line-up & registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jtrcurc
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✨ Free and open to all.
Full line-up & registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jtrcurc
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October 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Hannah Arendt Today, co-organised by our Teaching Fellow Sam Fazekas, runs 31 Oct–5 Dec and features early-career researchers exploring Arendt’s political thought.
✨ Free and open to all.
Full line-up & registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jtrcurc
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
✨ Free and open to all.
Full line-up & registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jtrcurc
@tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
We’re pleased to welcome Dr Rossella De Bernardi to the Department of Philosophy 🎓👋 She joins as a @researchireland.ie Postdoctoral Fellow, exploring the role of emotions in our understanding of justice and equality.
October 13, 2025 at 3:19 PM
We’re pleased to welcome Dr Rossella De Bernardi to the Department of Philosophy 🎓👋 She joins as a @researchireland.ie Postdoctoral Fellow, exploring the role of emotions in our understanding of justice and equality.
📚✨ Favourite Reads is back! Over the coming months, colleagues will share books that have inspired them. First up, Dr Ashley Shaw on Richard Moran’s 'Authority & Estrangement' & our relationship with our own beliefs. #philosophy #philsky
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October 9, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📚✨ Favourite Reads is back! Over the coming months, colleagues will share books that have inspired them. First up, Dr Ashley Shaw on Richard Moran’s 'Authority & Estrangement' & our relationship with our own beliefs. #philosophy #philsky
🔗 tinyurl.com/4pyc7zns
🔗 tinyurl.com/4pyc7zns
✨ We’re pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Kroedel from @uni-hamburg.de to the Department later today for this week’s Philosophy Colloquium. He’ll be speaking on 'Causal Complications for Explainable AI'. #philosophy #philsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
October 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
✨ We’re pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Kroedel from @uni-hamburg.de to the Department later today for this week’s Philosophy Colloquium. He’ll be speaking on 'Causal Complications for Explainable AI'. #philosophy #philsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
Delighted to see a packed JM Synge Theatre last Thursday for Dr Will Ratoff’s @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series talk on “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence”. Thanks to Will for a fascinating evening and to Dr Ashley Shaw for hosting. 👏🤖
October 6, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Delighted to see a packed JM Synge Theatre last Thursday for Dr Will Ratoff’s @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series talk on “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence”. Thanks to Will for a fascinating evening and to Dr Ashley Shaw for hosting. 👏🤖
Looking forward to welcoming a full house this evening for Dr Will Ratoff’s “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence” - part of the @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series. #AI #Ethics #Philosophy
October 2, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Looking forward to welcoming a full house this evening for Dr Will Ratoff’s “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence” - part of the @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series. #AI #Ethics #Philosophy
A warm welcome to Dr Chris Cowie from @durham-university.bsky.social who joins us later today for the first talk of our Michaelmas Term #Philosophy Colloquium Series. He’ll be speaking on 'The Epistemology of the Search for Alien Life'.
September 24, 2025 at 8:32 AM
A warm welcome to Dr Chris Cowie from @durham-university.bsky.social who joins us later today for the first talk of our Michaelmas Term #Philosophy Colloquium Series. He’ll be speaking on 'The Epistemology of the Search for Alien Life'.
🔎 New research from the Department.
"Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals" by Dr Pablo Magaña, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4nyvuz69
"Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals" by Dr Pablo Magaña, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4nyvuz69
September 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
🔎 New research from the Department.
"Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals" by Dr Pablo Magaña, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4nyvuz69
"Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals" by Dr Pablo Magaña, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/4nyvuz69
Professor @adinapreda.bsky.social has contributed a chapter on Human Rights and Equality to the new @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights.
Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository 🔽
tinyurl.com/3ucx338y
Book details 🔽
tinyurl.com/3z856vy4
Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository 🔽
tinyurl.com/3ucx338y
Book details 🔽
tinyurl.com/3z856vy4
September 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Professor @adinapreda.bsky.social has contributed a chapter on Human Rights and Equality to the new @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights.
Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository 🔽
tinyurl.com/3ucx338y
Book details 🔽
tinyurl.com/3z856vy4
Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository 🔽
tinyurl.com/3ucx338y
Book details 🔽
tinyurl.com/3z856vy4
✨ New research from the Department.
"Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr Pablo Magaña and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3xs6jrwn
#philsky #philosophy #academicsky
"Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr Pablo Magaña and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3xs6jrwn
#philsky #philosophy #academicsky
September 17, 2025 at 10:36 AM
✨ New research from the Department.
"Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr Pablo Magaña and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3xs6jrwn
#philsky #philosophy #academicsky
"Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr Pablo Magaña and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025.
Read it here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/3xs6jrwn
#philsky #philosophy #academicsky
Thinking about studying philosophy? We’re at #HigherOptions in the RDS for the next three days on the @tcddublin.bsky.social Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences stand- come by for a chat and learn more! @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
September 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Thinking about studying philosophy? We’re at #HigherOptions in the RDS for the next three days on the @tcddublin.bsky.social Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences stand- come by for a chat and learn more! @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social
Arendt, Kant, and the political potential of reflective judgment - explored in depth by our colleague Dr Sam Fazekas. 📚 'Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging' is 40% off in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social summer sale until 31 August. Order here ⬇️
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August 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Arendt, Kant, and the political potential of reflective judgment - explored in depth by our colleague Dr Sam Fazekas. 📚 'Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging' is 40% off in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social summer sale until 31 August. Order here ⬇️
tinyurl.com/mrx8uwde
tinyurl.com/mrx8uwde
Our @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Alumni Newsletter 2025 is now available to read! 📖
It looks back on the School's achievements over the past academic year. 👏
🔗Read the newsletter here:
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It looks back on the School's achievements over the past academic year. 👏
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July 21, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Our @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Alumni Newsletter 2025 is now available to read! 📖
It looks back on the School's achievements over the past academic year. 👏
🔗Read the newsletter here:
www.tcd.ie/ssp/alumni/n...
@tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social
It looks back on the School's achievements over the past academic year. 👏
🔗Read the newsletter here:
www.tcd.ie/ssp/alumni/n...
@tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social
Thanks to Anil Gomes from @ox.ac.uk who visited the department this week for a 2-day workshop & excellent chapter-by-chapter discussion of 'The Practical Self' (OUP) exploring self-consciousness & our place in the world.
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/5hxnk2ej
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/5hxnk2ej
June 12, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Thanks to Anil Gomes from @ox.ac.uk who visited the department this week for a 2-day workshop & excellent chapter-by-chapter discussion of 'The Practical Self' (OUP) exploring self-consciousness & our place in the world.
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/5hxnk2ej
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/5hxnk2ej
A warm congratulations to Professor David Berman, Fellow Emeritus (Philosophy) on the publication of his latest book “Whately's Historic Doubts about Napoleon's Existence and the Preliminary Question”, published by Palgrave Macmillan 👏
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3k4ahuvx
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3k4ahuvx
May 29, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A warm congratulations to Professor David Berman, Fellow Emeritus (Philosophy) on the publication of his latest book “Whately's Historic Doubts about Napoleon's Existence and the Preliminary Question”, published by Palgrave Macmillan 👏
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3k4ahuvx
More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3k4ahuvx
A big congratulations to PhD student Enda Russell, who has been awarded a 2025 Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award ⭐️ Enda’s thoughtful and engaging approach to teaching has made a real impact- well done from all of us in the department! 👏
Read more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/7uf8tpyb
Read more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/7uf8tpyb
May 26, 2025 at 10:38 AM
A big congratulations to PhD student Enda Russell, who has been awarded a 2025 Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award ⭐️ Enda’s thoughtful and engaging approach to teaching has made a real impact- well done from all of us in the department! 👏
Read more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/7uf8tpyb
Read more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/7uf8tpyb
That’s a wrap on #Philosophy Today 2025! 🥳 Six evenings of big questions, generous speakers & packed-out discussions. Thanks to everyone joined us & brought such curiosity & energy each week. 👏
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Sign up for updates on future events here 🔽
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April 22, 2025 at 10:18 AM
That’s a wrap on #Philosophy Today 2025! 🥳 Six evenings of big questions, generous speakers & packed-out discussions. Thanks to everyone joined us & brought such curiosity & energy each week. 👏
Sign up for updates on future events here 🔽
tinyurl.com/4nxc8vrv
Sign up for updates on future events here 🔽
tinyurl.com/4nxc8vrv
What does it mean to truly care for oneself? 🤔 Looking forward to tonight’s final talk in the #Philosophy Today series, with Professor Vasilis Politis, exploring Socrates' teachings on self-examination and their relevance today.
April 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
What does it mean to truly care for oneself? 🤔 Looking forward to tonight’s final talk in the #Philosophy Today series, with Professor Vasilis Politis, exploring Socrates' teachings on self-examination and their relevance today.
✨ The Department is pleased to welcome Dr Ashley Shaw, who joins us as Assistant Professor in #Philosophy this August. His research centres on mind & action, with current work on desire & rational agency & further interests in need, habit & self-control.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
✨ The Department is pleased to welcome Dr Ashley Shaw, who joins us as Assistant Professor in #Philosophy this August. His research centres on mind & action, with current work on desire & rational agency & further interests in need, habit & self-control.
🔗 tinyurl.com/4fdrhhun
🔗 tinyurl.com/4fdrhhun
Delighted to welcome Professor Brad Hooker from the University of Reading for the final talk in our Hilary Term Colloquium Series later today. His presentation is titled "A General Theory of Fairness". A big thank you to all our speakers this term for making it such a success! 👏
April 9, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Delighted to welcome Professor Brad Hooker from the University of Reading for the final talk in our Hilary Term Colloquium Series later today. His presentation is titled "A General Theory of Fairness". A big thank you to all our speakers this term for making it such a success! 👏