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Philosophy (Structured PhD)

Structured PhD (Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences) (Philosophy)

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Course Overview

As part of the doctoral training available on the Structured PhD programme, students avail themselves of a range of interdisciplinary taught modules. The wide menu of available options include modules that:

are discipline-specific in that they augment the student’s existing knowledge in their specialist area
are dissertation-specific in that they supply core skills which are essential to completion of the research project, e.g., additional language skills
acknowledge a student’s professional development e.g. presentation of a paper at an international conference
enhance a student’s employability through generic training, e.g,. careers workshops, computer literacy.

Each student will be assigned a primary Supervisor(s) and a Graduate Research Committee made up of experienced researchers to plan their programme of study and to provide on-going support to their research.

Both continental and analytic styles of philosophy are encouraged for research in this Discipline . The main areas for postgraduate research are post-Kantian and contemporary continental philosophy, aesthetics and bioethics. Within the Centre for Bioethical Research and Analysis (COBRA), which the Discipline hosts, research projects in areas of bioethics and professional ethics are especially encouraged. Within the area of continental philosophy we have particular interests in Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Phenomenology, Philosophy of Art and Culture, and Philosophy of Religion. Postgraduate research is also invited in the areas of Political Philosophy, Modern Philosophy (early and late), Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Psychiatry, Philosophy of Mind and Irish thought.

Programmes Available

Structured PhD (Philosophy)—full-time
Structured PhD (Philosophy)—part-time
Applications are made online via the University of Galway Postgraduate Applications System.

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Entry Requirements

For the Structured PhD in Philosophy we are looking for students with some background in philosophy (or cognate areas) who have, or expect to be awarded, a degree of at least upper-second class standard, or equivalent international qualification.

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Current research projects

Please visit: http://www.nuigalway.ie/colleges-and-schools/arts-social-sciences-and-celtic-studies/history-philosophy/disciplines-centres/philosophy/research/

Between Immanence and Transcendence: On the Religious Significance of the Hegelian Middle
The Two Worlds of Edmund Husserl: World as correlate of Consciousness and World as Life world
Ethics and Assisted Dying in Ireland
The unknowable self: Implications of Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology for the possibility of freedom and morality
Nietzsche's will to power metaphysics
Against computationalism: computation, consciousness, and the limits of the scientific image
On the Value of Knowledge: From Plato’s ‘Meno’ to the contemporary debate

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Research Areas

Phenomenology of Art and Cultures (especially visual arts)
Phenomenology of Religion (especially contemporary French thought)
Classical Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty)
Bioethics (especially issues concerning disability and new genetic technologies)
Applied Ethics
Environmental Ethics
Professional and Research Ethics
Political Philosophy
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Philosophy (especially Kant, Hegel and
Nietzsche)
History of Irish thought
Philosophy of Science,
Philosophy of Psychology and Psychiatry
Philosophy of Mind
Epistemology