Module Outlines 2025/26
Please find below module outlines for undergraduate philosophy students for the academic year 2025/26.
It is each student’s responsibility to ensure that they:
- Take modules amounting to 60 ECTS during the academic year.
- Select modules that meet the programme requirements.
- Meet the prerequisites for chosen modules.
- All module choices must be registered online via the my.tcd.ie portal.
Please note: Module outlines for the Academic Year 2025/26 are currently being updated and may be subject to change.
While the modules and module descriptors are set out below as accurately as possible, additions or removals of available modules, and changes of module content, instructors, and assessment procedures are often unavoidable between now and the start of the 2025/26 academic year because of changes in staff availability, resource constraints, and other pressures. Thank you for your understanding.
Junior Freshman | Michaelmas Term
- PIU11011: Topics in Philosophy I A (10 ECTS)
- PIU11013: Topics in Philosophy II A (5 ECTS)
- PIU11021: Central Problems in Philosophy A (10 ECTS)
- PIU11023: Central Problems in Philosophy A (5 ECTS)
- PIU11041: Topics in Philosophy I A (Columbia Dual BA)
- PIU11053: NEW - History of Philosophy I A (5 ECTS)
Junior Freshman | Hilary Term
- PIU11012: Topics in Philosophy II B (10 ECTS)
- PIU11014: Topics in Philosophy IB (5 ECTS)
- PIU11022: Central Problems in Philosophy B (5 ECTS)
- PIU11042: Topics in Philosophy II B (Columbia Dual BA)
- PIU11052: NEW - History of Philosophy I B (10 ECTS)
- PIU11054: NEW - History of Philosophy I B (5 ECTS)
Senior Freshman | Michaelmas Term
- PIU22061: Texts I (10 ECTS)
- PIU22073: NEW - History of Philosophy II A (5 ECTS)
- PIU22991: History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Science 1 (5 ECTS)
Senior Freshman | Hilary Term
- PIU22022: Philosophy of Science (5 ECTS)
- PIU22062: Texts II (10 ECTS)
- PIU22074: NEW - History of Philosophy II B (5 ECTS)
- PIU22992: History, Philosophy, and Ethics of Science 2 (5 ECTS)
Junior Sophister | Michaelmas Term
- PIU33021: Moral Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33023: Moral Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33041: Logic and Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33043: Logic and Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33071: Political Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33073: Political Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33173: Political Philosophy (PolSci students only)
- PIU33081: Philosophy of Mind (10 ECTS)
- PIU33083: Philosophy of Mind (5 ECTS)
Junior Sophister | Hilary Term
- PIU33012: Topics in Ancient Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33014: Topics in Ancient Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33052: Topics in Modern European Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU33054: Topics in Modern European Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU33062: Metaphysics (10 ECTS)
- PIU33064: Metaphysics (5 ECTS)
- PIU33112: Metaethics (10 ECTS)
- PIU33114: Metaethics (5 ECTS)
Senior Sophister | Michaelmas Term
- PIU44011: Ancient Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44013: Ancient Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44041: Metaphysics (10 ECTS)
- PIU44043: Metaphysics (5 ECTS)
- PIU44121: Self-Refutation Arguments (10 ECTS)
- PIU44123: Self-Refutation Arguments (5 ECTS)
- PIU44171: Advanced Topics in Value Theory I (10 ECTS)
- PIU44173: Advanced Topics in Value Theory I (5 ECTS)
- PIU44100: Capstone Philosophy (20 ECTS)
- PIU44200: Literature Review (Columbia Dual BA)
Senior Sophister | Hilary Term
- PIU44052: Neurophilosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44054: Neurophilosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44092: Post Kantian Philosophy (10 ECTS)
- PIU44094: Post Kantian Philosophy (5 ECTS)
- PIU44172: Advanced Topics in Value Theory II (10 ECTS)
- PIU44174: Advanced Topics in Value Theory II (5 ECTS)
- PIU44182: NEW - Topics in Contemporary Philosophical Research (10 ECTS)
- PIU44184: NEW - Topics in Contemporary Philosophical Research (5 ECTS)