A selection of past events hosted by the UCD School of Philosophy. For a selection of past graduate student events, please see the Dublin Graduate Philosophy Programme website, under 'events'.
- Workshop on Racism with Prof Bill Lawson - 13 October 2012
- Workshop on Epistemology with Prof Richard Fumerton - 28 September 2012
- Group Think Workshop including launch of the new MA in Consciousness & Embodiment - 22 June 2012
- The American Style in Philosophy (sponsored by IRCHSS New Ideas in association with the School of Philosophy) - 11-12 June 2012
- Sellars Centenary Conference - 6-8 June 2012. For a selection of videos of some of the main speakers, please see the Youtube clips here.
- Workshop on Judgement, Responsibility, and the Life-World, Prague, 9-11 May 2012, sponsored by the Australasian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA) in collaboration with Philosophy at Murdoch University, the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Jan Patočka Archive at the Center for Theoretical Study and the Institute for Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as part of the ARC funded project Judgement, Responsibility and the Life-World. (PI: Dermot Moran)
- Celebrating Wittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein - A Symposium 26 April 2012 26 April 2012
- Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition - Saturday, 31 March 2012, Newman House, St Stephen's Green
- Hegel's Philosophy of Right - Friday, 30 March 2012, Newman House, St Stephen's Green
- Agnes Cuming Lecture Series - Prof Christine M Korsgaard (Harvard University) - 20, 21, 22 March 2012.
- Hermeneutics and Deconstruction - 25 February 2012, NUI Building, 49 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
- Dublin Graduate Philosophy Conference - 17 & 18 February 2012
- Heidegger and the Question of Subjectivity (in association with the Irish Phenomenological Circle) - Friday, 10 February 2012, Newman House, St Stephen's Green
- Inaugural Session of the Society for Women in Philosophy - Ireland - 27 January 2012, Newman House, St Stephen's Green
- Spectres - UCD/TCD Philosophy & Literature Postgraduate Conference - 21 January 2012 at the IIS, Trinity Campus
- Humour and Morality a public lecture by Professor Noel Carroll (City University of New York) - 19 January 2012 at 5pm, Newman Theatre 1, Newman Building, Belfield
- Law, State and Religion - An Inter-disciplinary Conference in Honour of Dr Shirin Ebadi 16-17 September 2011. Dr Ebadi was also awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by UCD.
- Conference: Merleau-Ponty after 50 Years, 22-24 June 2011 (poster)
- One-day Nietzsche conference, 11 April 2011
- Paper On Spirit as Part of Nature & Workshop Ethics and Dialogue, by Prof Albrecht Wellmer, Free University of Berlin, 14 & 15 April 2011
- Dublin Graduate Philosophy Conference, 25-26 March 2011
- Agnes Cuming lectures by Prof. Terry Irwin, 21-22 March 2011
- Ranciere Workshop, February 2011
- Symposium: Transgression and the Sacred, 22-23 February 2011
- Symposium: Of God in Philosophy, Saturday 26 February 2011
- 15 October 2010. Workshop seminar 'On Sovereignty' with Professor Yves-Charles Zarka, University of Paris.
- 8 October 2010. Aporo workshop on Michael Lynch's book Truth as One and Many
- 9 October 2010. Aporo workshop: Concept and property
- 10-11 September 2010: 21st Century Heidegger - Session Programme
- Prof. Dermot Moran has been invited to teach a Masterclass in Phenomenology at the Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology
Research Institute for the Humanities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, for two weeks in July/August (19 July-4th August). - 9-11 July 2010. UCD hosted the 2010 Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Association, together with a number of other conferences. See here for a report and some photographs.
- Lecture by Professor Jürgen Habermas (emeritus, University of Frankfurt am Main) 'The Political': The Rational Meaning of a Questionable Inheritance of Political Theology, 15 June 2010.
- Embodied Subjectivity Workshop, 25-27 May 2010, poster, abstracts, programme.
- UCD visiting speakers, Spring 2010
- Intersubjectivity and Empathy workshop, 5-6 May 2010
- workshop on Professor Thomas McCarthy’s book, Race, Empire and the Idea of Human Development (CUP, 2009) on Tuesday, 13 April 2010.
- Translation and Philosophy Symposium, 25-26 March 2010
- Intentionality workshop, 4-5 February 2010, poster, abstracts
- Charles Taylor, professor emeritus of McGill University, took part in several events organised by the UCD School of Philosophy in association with the UCD School of Politics and International Relations. The title of his public lecture was 'Against reductive explanation'.
- Prof. Ilkka Niiniluoto, Chancellor of the University of Helsinki, and philosopher, visits UCD on 21 January 2010
- The Schelling Symposium, 9 November 2009
- Aporo seminar with Noam Chomsky, 2 November 2009
- Conference on Derrida and America 12-13 June 2009
Keynote Speakers – Prof.Christina Howells (Oxford University) and Prof. Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough University) - Professor Seyla Benhabib: "Hannah Arendt and Raphael Lemkin: International Law in the Shadow of Totalitarianism" 23 April 2009, 6pm in Clinton Auditorium.
- 'La Littérature et le voeu de pauvreté' Mireille Calle-Grüber (Professeur de Littérature fraçaise, Université la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III) Newman Building, A318 23 March 2009, 5pm
- Workshop in Cognitive Science and Philosophy of Mind: Monday 9 March 2009.
- Conference to honour Alasdair MacIntyre on his 80th birthday 6-8 March 2009.
- Prof. Terry Eagleton delivers the Philosophy Society's 2009 Inaugural Lecture on 'The Irish Sublime' 3 March 2009
- Prof. Axel Honneth (University of Frankfurt) delivers The Agnes Cuming Lectures on "Work and Recognition: The Morality of Markets" and "The Fabric of Justice:The Limits of Contemporary Proceduralism, 25-26 February, 2009.
- Friday 13th February 2009: The 2nd Alexander von Humboldt Symposium: "Brains become Minds when they learn to Dance with other Brains" Prof. Lenny Moss.
- 4th Annual Joint Conference of the Society for European Philosophy and the Forum for European Philosophy - 29-31 August 2008
- Intercorporality and Intersubjectivity, 6-7 June 2008
- Attention: Fundamental Questions - A workshop on the metaphysics, psychology, epistemology and neuroscience of attention. 29-31 May 2008
- Naturalism, Normativity and 'The Space of Reasons'. - 28-29 March 2008
- Dermot Moran's Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy and Jim O'Shea's Sellars: Naturalism with a Normative Turn are launched.
- Philosophy of Language Workshop - 18 June 2007
- Hilary Putnam Conference, 11-14 March 2007
- German Idealism and Normativity Conference, hosted by The Normativity Research Project, March 2007
- Conference: Perspectives on the Body and Embodiment, June 2007
- UCD School of Philosophy hosts Noam Chomsky, January 2006
Recent Honours & Awards
- UCD School of Philosophy is recognized as one of the top ten schools in the English Speaking World for graduate studies in Twentieth Century Continental Philosophy
- May 2009: Dr. Douglas Edwards is awarded a two year IRCSS fellowship.
- May 2009: Gerard Casey is promoted to the rank of Associate Professor
- Prof. Dermot Moran is awarded a IRCHSS Research Development Grant for a large project on the phenomenology of consciousness and subjectivity. The project aims to assess the enduring relevance of the phenomenological approach to consciousness, embodiment, and subjectivity, with regard to contemporary discussions of these issues in the philosophy of mind, cognitive sciences, and related human sciences
- 2008-09: Dr. Christopher Mole is awarded an IRCHSS Research Development Grant for a reciprocal fellowship with Prof. Colin Klein (University of Illinois, Chicago) examining the scope and limits of neuroimaging as a source of data for cognitive psychology.
- 2008-09: Prof. Maria Baghramian receives a UCD President's Research Fellowship
- 2008-09: Dr Brian Elliott and Dr Rowland Stout are awarded research fellowships by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences
- 2007-2009: Dr Andrew Jorgensen is awarded a two year IRCSS fellowship for his project 'Meanings of Thumb: A Semantic Error Theory.
- Professor Hilary Putnam, Honorary Visiting Professor in the School, is awarded the UCD Ulysses Medal.
- Professor Dermot Moran has recently been appointed Series Editor (along with Nicolas De Warren, Wellesley University) of the Contributions to Phenomenology book series, published by Springer in cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology.
- Professor Dermot Moran is an Honorary Advisor to the Archive for Phenomenology & Contemporary Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
