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Research Centres 

UCD Philosophy is a member of the the following:

UCD also hosts two journals:

Our Major Research Projects

A selection of current and recently completed interdisciplinary and international research in which the School is involved.

UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions

UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions is a Recognised Research Centre of UCD dedicated to the academic study of religions and faith in all their forms. The Centre includes members from across UCD and from other Irish universities whose research concerns aspects of religion and faith. 

Website: https://www.ucd.ie/newman/

Peritia

PERITIA investigates the conditions under which people trust expertise used for informing public policy. Funded by the EU programme Horizon 2020, the project brings together philosophers, social and natural scientists, policy experts, ethicists, psychologists, media specialists and civil society organisations to conduct a comprehensive multi-disciplinary research. PI: Maria Baghramian

Website: https://peritia-trust.eu/

InFraMinds Project

Insincerity for Fragmented Minds: Research Project on Insincere Speech, Inner Speech, and Self-deception.
The InFraMinds Project is generously funded by the Icelandic Research Fund and the UCD Ad Astra Programme. The project brings together scientists and research students from more than a dozen institutions to work on fundamental questions about mental and linguistic representation, especially the nature of insincerity, self-directed speech, and self-deception.  Elmar Unnsteinsson (UCD) is the Principal Investigator and Daniel W. Harris (CUNY Hunter College) is a Co-Investigator. The project runs from 2020 to 2025.

Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Traditions

European Research Grant NeoplAT: A Comparative Analysis of the Middle East, Byzantium and the Latin West (9th-16th centuries) (ERC_CoG_771460) 2018-2023

Hosted jointly by UCD and the Academy of Sciences Vienna

The project offers a fresh and thoroughly documented account of the impact of Pagan Neoplatonism on the Abrahamic traditions. It focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the Elements of Theology of Proclus (fifth century) which occupies a unique place in the history of thought.

This project radically challenges these conservative narratives both by analysing invaluable, previously ignored resources and by developing an innovative comparative approach that embraces a variety of research methods and disciplines. Specialists in Arabic, Greek and Latin history of ideas, philology, palaeography and lexicography develop an intense interdisciplinary research laboratory investigating the influence of Proclus on the mutual exchanges between the scriptural monotheisms from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries.

Dr Odile Gilon has joined the team as a part-time Research Scientist (she is holding a part-time position at Université libre de Bruxelles) until the end of the  ERC project  https://www.neoplat.eu/team/

When Experts Disagree

An interdisciplinary study involving: Epistemologists, philosophers of science, astrophysicists and environmental scientists.

American Voice in Philosophy

With four project members based in the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, The American Voice in Philosophy is an interdisciplinary initiative aiming to foreground the literary and historical dimensions of philosophy in America. It is our stated aim to broaden the scope of American philosophy from the analytic tradition as narrowly understood to the discipline’s potential affinities with U.S. intellectual history and literary studies.

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