Edmund Heaphy | Deputy Editor
Trinity’s Philosophy Department is in the final stages of planning an MPhil in Philosophy, The University Times has learned.
The MPhil will have a common core and two strands – a strand in ancient philosophy and a strand in analytic philosophy. A source within the Philosophy Department said that Trinity’s Plato Centre, a research centre jointly run by the Philosophy and Classics departments, will have an “involved role” in the ancient philosophy strand.
It is understood that the degree has been somewhat approved by both the Head of the School of Social Sciences and Philosophy and the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty Dean, and will proceed to a meeting of the Graduate Studies Committee in December. It will then go to University Council and the College Board for final approval in January.
Speaking to The University Times, the Head of the Philosophy Department, Professor Vasilis Politis, said that “all going well, [the department] would be able to start advertising at the end of January”, but said that it was hard to predict what could happen at the various committees.
He said he still had to “sign some things in [his] blood for people to be satisfied that they won’t lose millions or even hundreds of euros through this initiative.”
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