Philosophy (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • What does it mean to say that truth is plural? 

      Antonsen, Paal (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2014)
      This essay is an attempt to make sense of idea that truth is plural. I begin with presenting some motivations for pluralism about truth. I then move on to discuss the standard objections, and give some arguments for why ...

    • Plato's Theory of Perception 

      Larsen, Peter D. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)
      This dissertation defends the view that in a number of later dialogues (Theaetetus, Philebus, Timaeus, Sophist, as well as, incidentally, the earlier Phaedo) Plato articulates a coherent and systematic account, and thus a ...

    • Idealist philosophy of space : Kant's criticism of Berkeley 

      Storrie, Stefan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)
      In this thesis I have argued that Kant and Berkeley both took our experience of things in space to be real and veridical. Further, and what I take to be the most striking conclusion from this thesis, is that in fact these ...

    • A world of modal states of affairs: an account of the metaphysics of De Re modality 

      Kelly, James (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)