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The largest teaching and research centre for Philosophy in Ireland

UCD School of Philosophy is ranked in the Top 100 QS World University Rankings for Philosophy, and No. 1 in Ireland.

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The School of Philosophy is home to a wide variety of philosophical research, including two research centres and international journals.

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ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at UCD

ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at UCD

Applications are invited for a 36-month Postdoctoral Research Fellowship within the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. The postdoctoral researcher is expected to have experience in digital humanities research and will be associated with the ERC-funded project New Histories of British Moral Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century (c. 1690–1800).

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ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at University College Dublin 16May
ERC Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at University College Dublin

Applications are invited for a temporary 36 months post of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Level 1 or Level 2) within the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Bridging the Divide CEPL Seminar and Workshop 16Apr
Bridging the Divide CEPL Seminar and Workshop

Narrative Medicine and the Experiences of Women Physicians in Family Planning, Pregnancy and Early Parenthood, with Assoc Prof Margo Wilson (Memorial University, St. John’s, NL).
Associate Professor Timothy Mooney on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’ 27Mar
Associate Professor Timothy Mooney on BBC Radio 4’s ‘In Our Time’

Timothy Mooney was an invited contributor to a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 series ‘In Our Time’ devoted to the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.
Émilie Du Châtelet\'s Theoretical Philosophy in Context 21Mar
Émilie Du Châtelet's Theoretical Philosophy in Context

21–22 March 2025
University College Dublin
School of Philosophy
Newman Building
5th Floor, Room D520
UCD–Harvard Workshop on Metaphysics in Early Modern Philosophy 18Mar
UCD–Harvard Workshop on Metaphysics in Early Modern Philosophy

2:00–6:00pm
Rose Room
UCD Newman House
85 St. Stephen’s Green
Dublin
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Launch of Annual Eriugena Lectures (POSTPONED)

Professor Wouter Goris from the University of Bonn will give three lectures situating the concept of ‘absolute indifference’ within Hegel’s work, German Idealism and the history of philosophy.
Agnes Cuming Lectures 2024/25 30Jan
Agnes Cuming Lectures 2024/25

The UCD School Of Philosophy is delighted to announce that the Agnes Cuming speaker for 2024/25 will be Tim Crane, Professor of Philosophy and Pro-Rector at the Central European University in Vienna.
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UCD Philosophy is ranked among the Top 100 Departments of Philosophy worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023–2025)