School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions
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A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley's Theory of Causation in De motu
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2022)In this doctoral thesis, I will argue that in his De motu (1721, 'On motion'), Bishop George Berkeley (c.1684-1753) develops a pragmatist theory of causation regarding mechanical theories outlined previously with Newtonianism. ... -
Measurement Invariance of the WHO-5 Well-Being Index: Evidence from 15 European Countries
(2022)Background: The World Health Organization (WHO)-5 Well-Being Index has been used in many epidemiological studies to assess adolescent mental well-being. However, cross-country comparisons of this instrument among adolescents ... -
Start Spreading the (fake) News: The Role of Fear and Anger in the Formation and Dissemination of Conspiratorial Beliefs
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2022)Why do some people believe in political conspiracy theories and others do not? Why, for instance, do 60 percent of Americans believe that the CIA killed President John F. Kennedy while 25 percent believe that Barack Obama ... -
Gender Differences in Bullying Reflect Societal Gender Inequality: A Multilevel Study With Adolescents in 46 Countries
(2022)Purpose Social patterns in bullying show consistent gender differences in adolescent perpetration and victimization with large cross-national variations. Previous research shows associations between societal gender ... -
Review of: Billy Christmas: Property and Justice. A Liberal Theory of Natural Rights. New York: Routledge, 2021
(2022)In this book Billy Christmas advances an interpretation of justice grounded in a distinctive theory of property. Christmas’ account of property is at the same time pluralistic – it justifies various forms of property of ... -
Essays on Financial Globalisation
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This dissertation is a collection of three essays on financial globalisation. A common theme running through the essays in this dissertation is the importance of global factors shaping national macro-financial outcomes ... -
Essays in international economics
This dissertation is a collection of three independent essays in the field of international economics. A common theme running through the dissertation is that each essay touches upon a key question that central bankers ... -
"Tint and Form": The Geometric Philosophy Underlying Oliver Byrne's Elements
(2022)Oliver Byrne published his ground-breaking and visually remarkable edition of Euclid’s Elements in 1847. The book is extraordinary: its pages are adorned with generous four-colour diagrams, illustrations and grids, and ... -
What message are we sending bottle-feeding families when we place formula in the same retail category as cigarettes?
(Image Magazine, 2021)I have a powerful memory of first reflecting on Irish breastfeeding politics. I was 20 and visiting a then- new American coffee chain that had arrived on my local main street. Amid trying to figure out which series of ... -
Berkeley's Analyst: Rigour and Rhetoric
(King's College London, 2018)Consider the following puzzle: in 1732, Berkeley published Alciphron, and with it a sweeping pragmatic vindication of concepts whose terms fail to represent clear ideas. In that pragmatic semantics, he uses mathematical ... -
Environmental Behaviour and Decision Making - Evidence from Laboratory, Online and Natural Experiments
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)Tackling climate change and keeping global temperatures from rising by more than 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels is one of the major and most challenging issues that our societies are facing. Households are among the ... -
Essays in Behavioural Economics: Representation and Weighting of Numerical Information
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2022)This thesis consists of four essays. The first two essays (Chapters 2 and 3) present experimental tests of how numerical information is represented in the brain, and the implications of this representation for economic ... -
Reciprocal Libertarianism
(2022)Reciprocal libertarianism is a version of left-wing libertarianism that combines self-ownership with an egalitarian distribution of resources according to reciprocity. In this paper I show that reciprocal libertarianism ... -
Moralised Definitions of Freedom, Autonomy, and the Personal Value of Opportunities to Perform Morally Impermissible Actions
(2021)Are the opportunities to perform morally impermissible actions valuable? And, if so, has their value any role to play in normative arguments? In this essay I examine the personal value of opportunities to perform morally ... -
Shameless luck egalitarians
(2023)A recurring concern about luck egalitarianism is that its implementation would make some individuals, in particular those who lack marketable talents, experience shame. This, the objection goes, undermines individuals’ ... -
Explanation, Justification, and Egalitarianism
(2021)This paper argues that the philosophy of explanation can help inform core debates in value theory. Specifically, it argues that there is a consistent parallelism between the properties of explanation and the properties of ... -
Luck Egalitarianism Without Moral Tyranny
(2022)Luck egalitarians contend that, while each person starts out with a claim to an equal quantity of advantage, she can forfeit this claim by making certain choices. The appeal of luck egalitarianism is that it seems to satisfy ... -
A deliberative account of causation: How the evidence of deliberating agents accounts for causation and its temporal direction
(Columbia University, 2016)In my dissertation I develop and defend a deliberative account of causation: causal relations correspond to the evidential relations we use when we decide on one thing in order to achieve another. Tamsin’s taking her ... -
Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
(2022)A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, ... -
Europeanising Healthcare: The Effects of European Integration on Domestic Systems
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2022)Over recent decades, the structure and role of the European Union has developed and evolved. Scholars claim that EU jurisdiction and policy have expanded in many areas, such as agriculture, monetary, and competition policy, ...
