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✨ 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:
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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
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Before joining Trinity, Rossella held research and teaching roles in Genoa, Warwick, King’s College London, and Leeds. Her work has appeared in journals including the Journal of Social Philosophy and the Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
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Her fellowship project, 'Emotions and Injustice: An Egalitarian Theory of Affective Rights and Wrongs' (2025–2027), investigates how emotional life connects to social structures and moral responsibility.
13.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
13.10.2025 15:19 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
📚✨ 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
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✨ 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
08.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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. 👏🤖
06.10.2025 08:53 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
02.10.2025 08:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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'.
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🔎 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 ⬇️
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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
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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 🔽
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Book details 🔽
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✨ 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 ⬇️
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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
17.09.2025 09:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0A warm welcome to Dr Ashley Shaw, who has joined the department as Assistant Professor in Philosophy.
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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 ⬇️
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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:
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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 ⬇️
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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
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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:
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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 💫
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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
15.05.2025 06:18 — 👍 16 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0Interested 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. 👏
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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.
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