University College Dublin invites secondary school students, mature students, their families and guidance counsellors to the UCD Open Day taking place on Saturday, November 2023. Come along to the Philosopher's Cafe on the Newman concourse and meet our lecturers and postgraduate studentsf for more information on doing Philosophy at Ireland's largest centre for Philosophy.

One of the best ways to experience UCD is to come to our Open Day. You will gain a real insight into the student experience and life at UCD. 

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The 2023 UCD School of Philosophy/Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture will take place on the 20^th of September. Professor Lea Ypi will present a paper ‘For a Critical Philosophy of History’.  The lecture will take place in person and online at 5pm.  Register in advance for this webinar.  Here is a (opens in a new window)link to the interview, Professor Maeve Cooke UCD School of Philosophy and Professor Lea Ypi London School of Economics, prior to the lecture. 

Here is a link to her prize winning book, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History

(opens in a new window)Free Coming of Age at the End of History

and (opens in a new window)In conversation with Professor Maeve Cooke UCD

BIO: Lea Ypi is Professor in Political Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science and an Honorary Professor in Philosophy at the Australian National University. A native of Albania, she has degrees in Philosophy and in Literature from the University of Rome La Sapienza, a PhD from the European University Institute and was a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. She is the author of Global Justice and Avant-Garde Political Agency, The Meaning of Partisanship (with Jonathan White), and The Architectonic of Reason, all published by Oxford University Press. Her latest book, a philosophical memoir entitled Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, published by Penguin Press in the UK and W.W. Norton & Company in North America, won the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Slightly Foxed First Biography Prize and is being translated into more than twenty languages. Her academic work has been recognised with the British Academy Prize for Excellence in Political Science and the Leverhulme Prize for Outstanding Research Achievement. She coedits The Journal of Political Philosophy and occasionally writes for The Guardian.

Delving into all aspects and orientations at work in the writings of Jean-Luc Marion, this international conference proposes to question the intricate and complex relations between theeventsof “givenness” and “revelation” in the history of philosophy and theology. Our task, indeed, is to deploy and develop an access to the meaning of thegivenness of revelationand therevelation of givennessfor philosophical and theological discourses as well as uncover the hermeneutic possibilities inherent within this meaning for our human existence. In this sense, we shall examine the historical developments of these two tropes, “givenness” and “revelation”, and, furthermore, ascertain from whichplacethey confront, awaken and orient human thinking and action. Whatisthe gift? Whatisrevelation? Are gift and revelation reducible to the meaning of being? And furthermore, whichothersignification(s) remain at work within “givenness”and“revelation”? To whichotherorientation(s) could “givenness”and“revelation” head human existence?