Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
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Dublin, Ireland
Joined January 2020
✨ New research from the Department. "Avicenna’s ‘Proof’ for the Existence of God" by Dr @FarbodAkhlaghiG, published in @1000wordphil, November 2025. Read it here ⬇️ https://t.co/B73R7cneNN
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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! 🔗
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Looking forward to welcoming Professor Bart Streumer from @univgroningen 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: 🔗 https://t.co/DbpZ2igce4
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✨🎓Thinking about postgraduate study in philosophy? Applications are now open for Trinity’s MPhil in Philosophy. Explore course details and funding options here ⬇️ https://t.co/BxhtI0zbE1
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✨ Delighted to have Dr Corine Besson from @SussexUni 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: 🔗 https://t.co/5jmtT4U4Nc
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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 🔗 https://t.co/BSwLuQjm3T
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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.
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We’re pleased to welcome Dr Rossella De Bernardi to the Department of Philosophy 👋🎓 She joins as a @Researchirel Postdoctoral Fellow, exploring the role of emotions in our understanding of justice and equality.
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📚✨ 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. 🔗 https://t.co/xlhc2scUSG
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✨ We’re pleased to welcome Professor Thomas Kroedel from @unihh to the Department later today for this week’s Philosophy Colloquium. He’ll be speaking on 'Causal Complications for Explainable AI'.
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Delighted to see a packed JM Synge Theatre last Thursday for Dr Will Ratoff’s @tcd_school_ssp 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. 👏🤖
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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 @tcd_school_ssp Autumn Series.
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A warm welcome to Dr Chris Cowie from @durham_uni, who joins us later today for the first talk of our Michaelmas Term 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 @pmagana94, published in the Journal of Social Philosophy, September 2025. Read it here ⬇️ https://t.co/dDy8MTKPyY
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Should AI have the same moral rights as humans? 🤔🤖 Ahead of his Oct 2 talk in the @tcd_school_ssp Public Autumn Series, Dr Will Ratoff discusses this question with @JoeHumphreys42 in today’s @IrishTimes ➡️
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📚 Professor @adinapreda has contributed a chapter on Human Rights and Equality to the new @routledgebooks Handbook of the Philosophy of Human Rights. Read the pre-print via Trinity’s repository ⬇️ https://t.co/5NTplWNyBY Book details ⬇️ https://t.co/X2lJ2ysNk1
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✨ New research from the Department. "Intergenerational Subjection" by Dr @pmagana94 and Dr Iñigo González-Ricoyn, published in Legal Theory, June 2025. Read it here ⬇️ https://t.co/URaIFK2beG
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Thinking about studying philosophy? We’re at #HigherOptions in the @TheRDS for the next three days on the @tcddublin Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences stand in the Main Hall- come by for a chat and learn more!
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A warm welcome to Dr Ashley Shaw, who has joined the department as Assistant Professor in Philosophy.
Welcome to our new staff starting teaching term this year! 🥳 We wish you the best of luck in all your research and teaching endeavours this academic year. 👏 To learn more about our new staff, visit the People page of our Department websites. ⚡️
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