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UCD honours world-leading philosopher Professor John H. McDowell

Professor Chomsky gave two talks at the invitation of the UCD School of Philosophy and UCD Philosophy Society

Programme: Dublin Graduate Philosophy Conference 2013: Perception and Understanding. 5-6 April 2013, UCD Humanities Institute
Agnes Cuming Lectures - Two Questions about Perception by Prof John Mc Dowell (Pittsburgh)
2013 Annual Wittgenstein Conference - April 26th, Royal Irish Academy
Program Husserl and Patocka Workshop 19 & 20 April 2013
Conference: Discovering the "We": Phenomenology of Sociality. 8-10 May 2013.
UCD School of Philosophy Summer School - 4th June 2013
Gerald Hanratty Memorial Volume. Members of the School of Philosophy have published a volume of philosophical essays in memory of their dear late colleague Dr Gerald Hanratty.
Gerry was a member of the School of Philosophy until his untimely death in 2003. Entitled Human Destinies, the volume (678 pages) contains 26 essays by Gerry's friends, colleagues and former students.

The normal price of the book is €60. The book is available to Gerry’s former students and other UCD graduates for the special price of €42.

Information about the book, including a list of contents and information about orders, is available by following this link. Alternatively please email Prof Fran O'Rourke.
Conference: Between Heidegger, Levinas and Derrida. February 8 and 9, 2013. See poster and programme.
The UCD School of Philosophy congratulates Prof Dermot Moran who has been awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities 2012. This award is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field. Prof Moran is the first philosopher to receive the prestigious award.
Dr Joseph Cohen, UCD School of Philosophy was awarded a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This is a French Government honour for contribution to French culture and civilization through academic work. The award was announced on July 14th by the President of France and the ceremony took place in the French Embassy in November 2012.
Details of the Visiting Speaker Seminar Series for 2012-13 are now available.
Research Funding Success 2012-2013The School of Philosophy has surpassed itself by being awarded one outgoing and two incoming IRC postdoctoral awards. In addition the School has been awarded an IRC Advanced Collaborative Research Project Discovering the "We": The Phenomenology of Sociality (PI Prof Dermot Moran 2012-13). Two postdoctoral fellows will be associated with this project.

The postdoctoral fellows that will be joining the School in 2012-13 are Dr Mahon O'Brien, Dr Danielle Petherbridge, Dr Thomas Szanto and Dr Dylan Trigg.
Professor Dermot Moran of UCD School of Philosophy discusses Alan Turing and machine intelligence at the recent Euroscience Open Forum.
Prof Dermot Moran will be a partner in a major new research grant from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The project entitled 'Discovering Canada's contributions to the origins of the international phenomenological movement in the Winthrop Bell papers' is in partnership with academics from the Mount Allison University (Canada), Hanover Medical School (Canada), and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).
Dr Joseph Cohen, UCD School of Philosophy, is being awarded a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This is a French Government honour for contribution to French culture and civilization through academic work. The award will be announced on the 14th of July 2012 by the President of France and there will be a ceremony in the French Embassy in September.
For graduate student events in UCD and Trinity, see the Dublin Graduate Philosophy Programme website, under 'events'.
For a general calendar of all philosophy events in Ireland, see here.

NEWS:

The School of Philosophy is pleased to announce the publication of The Husserl Dictionary by Professor Dermot Moran and Dr Joseph Cohen (Continuum, London and New York, 2012).
Fulbright Scholarships 2011-12
UCD School of Philosophy Recent Funding Successes
January 2011. Dr Tim Crowley has been awarded Oxford University’s prestigious Conington Prize in Ancient Philosophy and Ideas for his DPhil dissertation Aristotle on the Matter of the Elements.
May 2010. Prof. Maria Baghramian has been elected as a member of the Royal Irish Academy.
May 2010. Dr. Joseph Ward has been awarded a post-doctoral fellowship from the Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS), and will be spending it at the UCD School of Philosophy.
May 2010. Four doctoral students in the UCD School of Philosophy have been awarded IRCHSS scholarships.

See here for Past events