Bachelor in Philosophy (BA) - Trinity College Dublin

This Bachelor in Philosophy (BA) at Trinity College Dublin offers the opportunity to engage in depth with questions of metaphysics (about the fundamental nature of reality), epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ethics (theories of right and wrong), political philosophy (the nature of the just state), philosophy of mind (questions about thought, language and reason) and various other areas.

The staff are world-recognised specialists in their respective areas of expertise. The department's approach is predominately, but not exclusively, within analytic philosophy, which focuses on conceptual analysis and logical precision, and is unique in this respect in Ireland.

Trinity College Dublin is ranked in the top 100 Universities in the world in Philosophy.

The Bachelor in Philosophy (BA) is designed to give students a solid, scholarly grounding in the classical texts that form the history of Western philosophy, and are one of the formative influences on Western culture. Studying the fundamentals of both formal and informal reasoning will support them to think independently.