✨ New research from the Department. "Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social, published in @1000wordphilosophy.bsky.social, November 2025. Read it here ⬇️ 1000wordphilosophy.com/2025/11/06/a...

Missed Dr Will Ratoff’s packed Autumn Series lecture on 2 Oct - “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence”? You can now watch it in full on YouTube! 🔗 youtu.be/MyWO014Usbo?...

Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @rug.nl to the #Philosophy Colloquium later today for his talk, ‘How Berkeley Can Go Quasi and Lose His Mind-Dependence’. More on this term’s series: 🔗 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/r...

✨🎓 Thinking about postgraduate study in philosophy? Applications are now open for Trinity’s MPhil in Philosophy. Explore course details and funding options here 🔽 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/p... #philosophy #philsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

✨ Delighted to have Dr Corine Besson from @sussex.ac.uk with us for today’s Philosophy Colloquium, where she will speak on ‘Rule-Following, Particularism and The Particular-First View of Deductive Reasoning’. More on the series here: 🔗 tinyurl.com/mpscjhm2 @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Hannah Arendt Today, co-organised by our Teaching Fellow Sam Fazekas, runs 31 Oct–5 Dec and features early-career researchers exploring Arendt’s political thought. ✨ Free and open to all. Full line-up & registration 🔗 tinyurl.com/2jtrcurc @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

We’re pleased to welcome Dr Rossella De Bernardi to the Department of Philosophy 🎓👋 She joins as a @researchireland.ie Postdoctoral Fellow, exploring the role of emotions in our understanding of justice and equality.

📚✨ Favourite Reads is back! Over the coming months, colleagues will share books that have inspired them. First up, Dr Ashley Shaw on Richard Moran’s 'Authority & Estrangement' & our relationship with our own beliefs. #philosophy #philsky 🔗 tinyurl.com/4pyc7zns

✨ We’re pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Kroedel from @uni-hamburg.de to the Department later today for this week’s Philosophy Colloquium. He’ll be speaking on 'Causal Complications for Explainable AI'. #philosophy #philsky @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

Delighted to see a packed JM Synge Theatre last Thursday for Dr Will Ratoff’s @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series talk on “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence”. Thanks to Will for a fascinating evening and to Dr Ashley Shaw for hosting. 👏🤖

Looking forward to welcoming a full house this evening for Dr Will Ratoff’s “Machines Like Us? The Ethics of Artificial General Intelligence” - part of the @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series. #AI #Ethics #Philosophy

A warm welcome to Dr Chris Cowie from @durham-university.bsky.social who joins us later today for the first talk of our Michaelmas Term #Philosophy Colloquium Series. He’ll be speaking on 'The Epistemology of the Search for Alien Life'.

🔎 New research from the Department. "Ideology, Red in Tooth and Claw: Realist Ideology Critique and Animals" by Dr Pablo Magaña, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025. Read it here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/4nyvuz69

Should AI have the same moral rights as humans? 🤔🤖 Ahead of his Oct 2 talk in the @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Public Autumn Series, Dr Will Ratoff discusses this question with Joe Humphreys in today's @irishtimes.com ▶️ tinyurl.com/364zdxk8

Professor @adinapreda.bsky.social has contributed a chapter on Human Rights and Equality to the new @routledgebooks.bsky.social Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights. Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository 🔽 tinyurl.com/3ucx338y Book details 🔽 tinyurl.com/3z856vy4

✨ New research from the Department. "Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr Pablo Magaña and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025. Read it here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/3xs6jrwn #philsky #philosophy #academicsky

Thinking about studying philosophy? We’re at #HigherOptions in the RDS for the next three days on the @tcddublin.bsky.social Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences stand- come by for a chat and learn more! @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social

A warm welcome to Dr Ashley Shaw, who has joined the department as Assistant Professor in Philosophy.

Should we create minds more powerful than our own? Join Dr Will Ratoff on 2 Oct for a free public lecture on the ethics of Artificial General Intelligence. Part of @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Autumn Series on AI. Free tickets & details here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/95ckuskb

Is it wrong for someone to stop you from making a major life choice?🧐 Dr @farbod-a.bsky.social explains the moral complexity of transformative choices in our latest Meet the Expert video!🎯 📎Read his research paper: tinyurl.com/3jhszh4b @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social @tcddublin.bsky.social

Arendt, Kant, and the political potential of reflective judgment - explored in depth by our colleague Dr Sam Fazekas. 📚 'Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging' is 40% off in the @degruyterbrill.bsky.social summer sale until 31 August. Order here ⬇️ tinyurl.com/mrx8uwde

The Department of Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin are calling for expressions of interest in two great funding schemes - one for full PhD funding, and one for postdoctoral positions, both through Research Ireland (our main state research council). 1/2

Our @tcdschoolssp.bsky.social Alumni Newsletter 2025 is now available to read! 📖 It looks back on the School's achievements over the past academic year. 👏 🔗Read the newsletter here: www.tcd.ie/ssp/alumni/n... @tcdeconomics.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social

Why does Plato continue to inspire philosophers across centuries? The Platonic Mind, co-edited by our colleague Vasilis Politis and Peter D Larsen offers a fresh look at his influence on philosophy. A great pick from the ‪School's Summer Reads series! @routledgebooks.bsky.social

Thanks to Anil Gomes from @ox.ac.uk who visited the department this week for a 2-day workshop & excellent chapter-by-chapter discussion of 'The Practical Self' (OUP) exploring self-consciousness & our place in the world. More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/5hxnk2ej

So, why should we care about central bank independence? 🧐 Professor @davideromelli.bsky.social (@tcdeconomics.bsky.social) tells us why it matters in the first video of our new Meet the Expert Summer Series 💫 @tcdphilosophy.bsky.social @tcdsociology.bsky.social @tcdpoliticalsci.bsky.social

A warm congratulations to Professor David Berman, Fellow Emeritus (Philosophy) on the publication of his latest book “Whately's Historic Doubts about Napoleon's Existence and the Preliminary Question”, published by Palgrave Macmillan 👏 More here 🔗 tinyurl.com/3k4ahuvx

A big congratulations to PhD student Enda Russell, who has been awarded a 2025 Dermot McAleese Teaching Assistant Award ⭐️ Enda’s thoughtful and engaging approach to teaching has made a real impact- well done from all of us in the department! 👏 Read more here 🔗 tinyurl.com/7uf8tpyb

Delighted to be able to share this new forthcoming paper: my part of a book symposium on Amir Saemi's excellent 'Morality and Revelation in Islamic Thought and Beyond', edited by Mohammad Saleh Zarepour for Agatheos: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. philpapers.org/rec/AKHDPE

Interested in starting an MPhil in Philosophy this September? Join Course Director, Professor Lilian Alweiss, at our upcoming webinar to discuss any questions you may have. 📅 Date: Tuesday 13 May 2025 🕒 Time: 10 am (Irish Time) 📍 Venue: Zoom (register here: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...)

That’s a wrap on #Philosophy Today 2025! 🥳 Six evenings of big questions, generous speakers & packed-out discussions. Thanks to everyone joined us & brought such curiosity & energy each week. 👏 Sign up for updates on future events here 🔽 tinyurl.com/4nxc8vrv

What does it mean to truly care for oneself? 🤔 Looking forward to tonight’s final talk in the #Philosophy Today series, with Professor Vasilis Politis, exploring Socrates' teachings on self-examination and their relevance today.

✨ The Department is pleased to welcome Dr Ashley Shaw, who joins us as Assistant Professor in #Philosophy this August. His research centres on mind & action, with current work on desire & rational agency & further interests in need, habit & self-control. 🔗 tinyurl.com/4fdrhhun

Delighted to welcome Professor Brad Hooker from the University of Reading for the final talk in our Hilary Term Colloquium Series later today. His presentation is titled "A General Theory of Fairness". A big thank you to all our speakers this term for making it such a success! 👏

Huge congratulations to Annette Byrne on her election to @ria.ie, Ireland’s highest academic honour. Annette is Professor of Physiology and Head of the Precision Cancer Medicine Group at @rcsi.bsky.social & also a Senior Sophister studying Philosophy & English with us @tcddublin.bsky.social!

We’re pleased to welcome Dr Max Khan Hayward from @sheffielduni.bsky.social to the department later today for an extra Colloquium talk titled "What is the 'Method of Cases' in Ethics?" His talk will take place from 3-5pm in the Trinity Business School Board Room (Room 4.19, 4th floor).

🥳 📚 Congratulations to our colleague Samantha Fazekas on the publication of her new book 'Hannah Arendt’s Unwritten Chapter on Judging' (@degruyterbrill.bsky.social July 2025) - the 1st title in the new Thinking with Arendt series. More here ⬇️ degruyterbrill.com/document/isb... #philosophy #philsky

Philosophy Today continues tonight with a sold-out talk from @quiteclare.bsky.social, exploring the legacy of George Berkeley—once honoured with a library in his name, now a more complicated figure. Living With Berkeley, 7pm. #philosophy #philsky

Looking forward to our colleague Dr Julian Bacharach’s presentation later today, "On the Very Idea of a Temporal Perspective," as part of our Hilary Term #philosophy Colloquium Series. #philsky

Congratulations to our colleague Alison Fernandes on her promotion to Associate Professor! 🎉 Alison’s research on time, causation, and decision-making brings new perspectives to core philosophical questions. Explore her recent work here ⬇️ www.tcd.ie/philosophy/a...

✨ Delighted to welcome Dr Lucy Campbell, Assistant Professor at @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social to the Department later today as part of our Hilary Term Colloquium Series. Dr Campbell, whose research explores the #philosophy of mind & action, will present her talk titled "Intending and Acting."

Are some questions more valuable than their answers? 🤔 Looking forward to tonight’s sold out Philosophy Today lecture, where Dr Richard Teague will explore curiosity and the role of questioning in rational thought. #philosophy #philsky

🎉Vol III of the student-run Trinity Student Philosophical Review is here! Featuring exceptional undergrad essays on topics such as privacy, emotivism & counterfactuals. Congrats to the TSPR team for their hard work in making this possible! Read it here 👇 tinyurl.com/fzh328x8 #philosophy #philsky

Delighted to welcome Dr Kenneth Silver from @tcddublin.bsky.social Trinity Business School to the Department later today. Kenneth will be presenting his talk titled "A Hermeneutic Objection to Markets”, as part of our Hilary Term #Philosophy Colloquium Series. #philsky

💫 A reminder that this Zoom event is taking place tomorrow at 1pm GMT! The event is organised by Princeton University's Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination & sponsored by Trinity's Centre for Justice & Values. Further information and registration details below 👇 tinyurl.com/ykpxdz6c

📢 The Trinity Student Philosophical Review (TSPR) Vol III launches this Friday, 14 March at 7pm in the GMB! Join us for an evening of discussion & celebration of this student-led publication, showcasing outstanding undergraduate work in #philosophy. All welcome! More 🔽 www.tcd.ie/philosophy/c...

✨ This month, PhD student Jun Han discusses his research into a puzzling question in Plato’s Phaedo: Is the soul mutable or immutable? Jun shares his motivations for exploring this question & what he aims to uncover through his research. Read it here 🔽 tcd.ie/philosophy/r... #philosophy #philsky

On Truth and Its Importance - in a world of competing narratives, does truth still matter? Professor John Divers takes on this question in this evening’s sold out Philosophy Today talk. Looking forward to a fascinating discussion! #philosophy #philsky

Should AI have limits, and who gets to decide? 🤔💻 AI & Ethics with Dr William Ratoff starts next Monday, 3 March. This 6-week online course explores the ethical & political challenges of AI. A few spaces are still available - sign up below 🔽 www.tcd.ie/courses/hci-... #philosophy #philsky

Is it ever morally justifiable to kill in war? Professor Lilian Alweiss explores the moral limits of conflict and peace in our sold-out Philosophy Today public lecture tonight. #Philosophy #philsky