The UCD School of Philosophy invites prospective PhD students to attend the Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop, 27–28 September 2018.

The full programme of the workshop is available here.

Jacqueline Broad (Monash) will deliver a keynote talk on “Selfhood and Self-government in Women’s Devotional Writings of the Early Modern Period”

 

We have secured funding to offer up to five stipends for prospective PhD students who are interested in applying to University College Dublin to pursue a PhD in early modern philosophy or philosophy of action (broadly construed). The stipends will be up to €150 each for prospective PhD students based in Ireland and up to €250 each for prospective PhD students from outside Ireland. They can be used to cover travel and/or accommodation costs to attend the Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop. They can also be used to attend the workshop dinner on Thursday evening. We will provide free lunch, tea and coffee on both days.

 

 

Application

To apply for one of the stipends please submit the completed application form, which is available for download below, and a copy of your CV, including degree information and results (as available) to ruth.boeker [at] ucd.ie

Review of applications will begin 10 August 2018. If places remain available after this date, we will consider applications after this date on a rolling basis until all places are filled.

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Application form

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During the workshop prospective PhD students will have an opportunity to meet prospective PhD supervisors and will be invited to an information session about the Irish Research Council postgraduate scholarship scheme, which covers tuition fees and living expenses for up to four years. International candidates from outside the European Union are eligible to apply. More information about the IRC scholarship scheme is available here.

The UCD School of Philosophy has had a good success rate with this scheme in past years and we offer detailed mentoring during the application process to help prospective PhD candidates.

 

 

Philosophy at University College Dublin

The UCD School of Philosophy is the largest teaching and research centre for Philosophy in Ireland. The School offers a lively environment for research and regularly hosts visiting speakers, international conferences and workshop and graduate students are encouraged to participate in events in the School.

Research profiles of all faculty members can be accessed here.

 

 

Research on agency, early modern philosophy and history of philosophy at UCD

Several faculty members in the School have research expertise and interests in early modern philosophy, philosophy of action, and history of philosophy more generally. They include:

 

Ruth Boeker: Early Modern Philosophy, Scottish Philosophy, History of Ethics, Personal Identity

Dragos Calma: Medieval Philosophy

Katherine O’Donnell: 18th Century Studies, Edmund Burke, History of Ideas, Feminist Philosophy

James O’Shea: Hume, Kant, Sellars, Pragmatism, Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind

Markus Schlosser: Philosophy of Action, Philosophy of Mind and Cognitive Science, Moral Psychology

Rowland Stout: Philosophy of Mind and Action

 

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PhD programme at UCD

The UCD School of Philosophy offers a structured PhD programme in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, which involves taught courses in the first year of study. It provides comprehensive training in philosophy, including history of philosophy, contemporary European traditions, and analytic philosophy. In any one year we have about 25 MA students and 25 doctoral students, and they meet regularly with students from Trinity at work in progress seminars. Our research students are offered the opportunity to act as tutors and teaching assistants, to edit the peer-reviewed graduate research journal Perspectives and to act as editorial assistants with the International Journal of Philosophical Studies. There are opportunities to apply for funding to organize student conferences and to present papers at international conferences. Our students have been successful in attracting national and international research funding, including postgraduate and postdoctoral fellowships.

For further information about UCD’s PhD programme, please visit: https://www.ucd.ie/philosophy/study/graduateprogrammes/researchphd/

 

The School is committed to the implementation of the guidelines for good practice recommended by the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy.

 

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The Agency in Early Modern Philosophy Workshop is made possible thanks to generous support by the British Society for the History of Philosophy, the Mind Association, UCD Seed Funding, and the UCD School of Philosophy.