Postgraduate Programmes

Postgraduate Philosophy at UCD

(opens in a new window)UCD School of Philosophy is ranked in the top 100 Philosophy departments in the world

UCD Philosophy hosts an extremely vibrant postgraduate community with about 60 students each year registered across our range of taught and research programmes. There are weekly coffee mornings, reading groups, weekly work-in-progress seminars (which run in conjunction with the Philosophy Department at Trinity College Dublin) and an annual graduate philosophy conference. The School is home to the postgraduate journal Perspectives, and students are encouraged to become part of its editorial team.

In addition to graduate-specific events, our students are encouraged to attend and participate in the School’s numerous events such as conferences and visiting speaker seminars. The School encourages and supports graduate students attending international conferences by providing small travel bursaries and assists in funding applications to the university or national bodies for larger events/projects that students wish to undertake (see below for funding opportunities).

Our faculty members have a diverse range of research interests with expertise in contemporary philosophy of mind, language, ethics, political philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, and the history of philosophy across continental and Anglo-American traditions. More importantly we encourage both staff and students to engage in dialogue across more traditional philosophical divides to create a genuinely pluralistic department.