UG Curricular streams
The UCD School of Philosophy offers almost 40 modules. On this page, we have grouped some modules together into informal 'streams'. If a student finds a module interesting, then they might want to explore other modules in the given stream. We stress that these are only recommendations; the School does not have any formal system of prerequisites.
- Stream 1: Contemporary European Philosophy
- Level 1: Introduction to Modern Philosophy; Existentialism and Humanism
- Level 2: Phenomenology & Existentialism; Art & Society; Philosophy & Literature; Body, Mind, World; Revelation and Reason
- Levels 3: Philosophy of Interpretation; History & Philo: Nazi Germany; Phenomenology and History
- Stream 2: Mind, Language, and Logic (‘analytic’ philosophy)
- Level 1: Critical Thinking; Problems of Philosophy
- Level 2: Logic; Knowledge & Scepticism; Philosophy of Mind: Philosophy of Science
- Level 3: Wittgenstein; Philo of Language; Applied Epistemology; Philo of Fiction: Matters of Life and Death; Hume and Kant
- Stream 3: Ethics and Society
- Level 1: Intro to Ethics; Existentialism & Humanism
- Level 2: Feminism; Applied Ethics, Plato's Republic; Body, Mind, World; Philo of Work; Art & Society
- Levels 3: Aristotle; History of Ethics; Philo Religion; Philo of Law; Matters of Life and Death
- Stream 4: Living History
- Level 1: Introduction to Modern Philo; Ancient Philo; Intro to Eastern Philo
- Level 2: Rationalism & Empiricism, Phenomenology; Plato's Republic: Revelation and Reason
- Levels 3: Philosophy of Interpretation; Irish Enlightenment; History of Ethics; Wittgenstein; Personal Identity; Love: a Philosophical Problem; History & Philosophy: Nazi Germany; Hume and Kant: Phenomenology & History