2012

2012 News and Events

The UCD School of Philosophy congratulates Prof Dermot Moran who has been awarded the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Humanities 2012. This award is in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the field. Prof Moran is the first philosopher to receive the prestigious award.

Dermot Moran RIA Gold Medal

Dr Joseph Cohen, UCD School of Philosophy was awarded a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques. This is a French Government honour for contribution to French culture and civilization through academic work. The award was announced on July 14th by the President of France and the ceremony took place in the French Embassy in November 2012.

Joseph Cohen Chevalier de l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques

Research Funding Success 2012-2013The School of Philosophy has surpassed itself by being awarded one outgoing and two incoming IRC postdoctoral awards. In addition the School has been awarded an IRC Advanced Collaborative Research Project Discovering the "We": The Phenomenology of Sociality (PI Prof Dermot Moran 2012-13). Two postdoctoral fellows will be associated with this project.

Professor Dermot Moran of UCD School of Philosophy discusses Alan Turing and machine intelligence at the recent Euroscience Open Forum.

Prof Dermot Moran will be a partner in a major new research grant from Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The project entitled 'Discovering Canada's contributions to the origins of the international phenomenological movement in the Winthrop Bell papers' is in partnership with academics from the Mount Allison University (Canada), Hanover Medical School (Canada), and the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium).

The School of Philosophy is pleased to announce the publication of The Husserl Dictionary by Professor Dermot Moran and Dr Joseph Cohen (Continuum, London and New York, 2012).

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Events in 2012

19 January. Humour and Morality a public lecture by Professor Noel Carroll (City University of New York).

21 January. Spectres - UCD/TCD Philosophy & Literature Postgraduate Conference.

27 January. Inaugural Session of the Society for Women in Philosophy - Ireland.

10 February. Heidegger and the Question of Subjectivity (in association with the Irish Phenomenological Circle)

25 February. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

20-22 March: Agnes Cuming Lecture Series - Prof Christine M Korsgaard (Harvard University)

30 March. Hegel's Philosophy of Right

31 March. Conference: (opens in a new window)Encountering the Other: Philosophical Perspectives on Recognition

26 April. Celebrating Wittgenstein - Ludwig Wittgenstein - A Symposium

9-11 May. Workshop on Judgement, Responsibility, and the Life-World, Prague, sponsored by the Australasian Phenomenology and Hermeneutics Association (APHA) in collaboration with Philosophy at Murdoch University, the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, and the Jan Pato?ka Archive at the Center for Theoretical Study and the Institute for Philosophy at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic as part of the(opens in a new window) ARC funded project Judgement, Responsibility and the Life-World.  (PI: Dermot Moran)

6-8 June. (opens in a new window)Sellars Centenary Conference. For a selection of videos of some of the main speakers, please see the Youtube clips (opens in a new window)here.

11-12 June. (opens in a new window)The American Style in Philosophy (sponsored by IRCHSS New Ideas in association with the School of Philosophy)

22 June. (opens in a new window)Group Think Workshop including launch of the new MA in Consciousness & Embodiment

28 September. Workshop on Epistemology with Prof Richard Fumerton

13 October. Workshop on Racism with Prof Bill Lawson

9-10 November. (opens in a new window)Society for Women in Philosophy (SWIP) - Joint Ireland/UK Conference

17 November. Workshop on Why Tolerate Religion? with Prof Brian Leiter (WORLD PHILOSOPHY DAY)

23 November. Workshop on Heidegger and the Political

29-30 November. Life-World and the Natural World: Husserl & Patocka