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Suggested Curricular Streams

Suggested Curricular Streams

The UCD School of Philosophy offers almost 40 modules. On this page, we have grouped some modules together into informal ‘streams’. If a student finds a module interesting, then they might want to explore other modules in the given stream. We stress that these are only recommendations; the School does not have any formal system of prerequisites.

Level 1 Modules
  • Introduction to Modern Philosophy
  • Existentialism and Humanism
Level 2 Modules
  • Phenomenology and Existentialism
  • Art and Society
  • Philosophy and Literature
  • Body, Mind, World
  • Revelation and Reason
Level 3 Modules
  • Philosophy of Interpretation
  • History and Philosophy: Nazi Germany
  • Phenomenology and History

Level 1 Modules
  • Critical Thinking
  • Mind, Language and Meaning
Level 2 Modules
  • Logic
  • Knowledge and Scepticism
  • Philosophy of Mind and AI
  • Philosophy of Social Science
Level 3 Modules
  • Wittgenstein
  • Philosophy of Language
  • Applied Epistemology
  • Philosophy of Perception and the Senses
  • Philosophy of Fiction: Matters of Life & Death
  • Hume & Kant

Level 1 Modules
  • Introduction to Ethics
  • Existentialism and Humanism
Level 2 Modules
  • Feminism
  • Applied Ethics
  • Plato‘s Republic
  • Body, Mind, World
  • Philosophy of Work
  • Art and Society
Level 3 Modules
  • Aristotle
  • History of Ethics
  • Philosophy of Religion
  • Philosophy of Law
  • Philosophy of Fiction: Matters of Life and Death

Level 1 Modules
  • Ancient Philosophy
  • Introduction to Modern Philosophy
  • Introduction to Eastern Philosophy
Level 2 Modules
  • Rationalism and Empiricism
  • Phenomenology
  • Plato‘s Republic
  • Revelation and Reason
Level 3 Modules
  • Philosophy of Interpretation
  • Irish Enlightenment
  • History of Ethics
  • Wittgenstein
  • Personal Identity
  • Love: A Philosophical Problem
  • History and Philosophy: Nazi Germany
  • Hume and Kant
  • Phenomenology and History

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UCD Philosophy is ranked among the Top 100 Departments of Philosophy worldwide (QS World University Rankings 2017, 2018, 2021, 2023–2025)