School of Social Sciences and Philosophy: Recent submissions

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    • The Schreber case : towards a philosophical construction of madness 

      Lees, Lorna (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)
      Daniel Paul Schreber, lawyer and judge, is better known as a "psychiatric patient par excellence". Schreber's case is also interesting in terms of the debate as to what constitutes health and what, disease. The three main ...

    • In search of legitimacy : an exploration of the Gülen Movement's strategic engagements in the Western context 

      Lacey, Jonathan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)
      This thesis analyses the strategic engagements of the Gülen Movement (GM) in the Western context. The GM is a Turkish-originated Islamic movement named after the controversial and charismatic Turkish Islamic scholar, ...

    • Access to banking services in Sub-Saharan Africia : essays in development economics 

      King, Michael (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      Access to formal financial services has the potential to help transform the lives of low income individuals in Sub-Saharan African. Access and usage of saving, transaction and credit services can play a central role in ...

    • Structural changes in agriculture : a critical analysis of Common Agricultural Policy reforms 

      Kažukauskas, Andrius (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2011)
      This thesis focuses on the impact of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on structural change in the EU agricultural sector. The CAP is still the most integrated of all EU policies and consequently ...

    • Substantial priority : an essay in fundamental mereology 

      Inman, Ross (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2013)
      Philosophical inquiry concerning the relationship between wholes and their parts (mereology) has occupied center stage in some of the most fruitful periods in the Western philosophical tradition. With the recent resurgence ...

    • Spatial networks, clustering and spillovers : lessons for development 

      Howard, Emma (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2013)
      The geographic clustering of manufacturing activity has long been recognised as facilitating the growth and prosperity of firms and regions alike. Empirical evidence however is limited, particularly in a developing country ...

    • Stakeholder influence in the European Commission's stakeholder consultations 

      Hermanson, Henrik (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)
      This thesis investigates lobbying by stakeholders, i.e. firms, NGOs and industry organisations as well as other private and public bodies from the international to local level, in the context of the European Commission's ...

    • Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism 

      White, Benjamin (2017)
      The Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that since (1) every physical effect has a sufficient physical cause, and (2) cases of causal overdetermination are rare, it follows that if (3) mental events cause physical ...

    • The Realization of Qualia, Persons, and Artifacts 

      White, Benjamin (2018)
      This article argues that standard causal and functionalist definitions of realization fail to account for the realization of entities that cannot be individuated in causal or functional terms. By modifying such definitions ...

    • Relativism about truth : a critique 

      Hamilton, Richard (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)
      This thesis examines John MacFarlane's attempt to make sense of relative truth, but concludes by rejecting the coherence of such an attempt, on the grounds that it fails to adequately address a problem that was posed by ...

    • Radical minimalism and the possibility of a context-free semantics 

      Grant, Robert (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)
      This thesis explores the nature of the distinction between two types of meaningful content associated with human language: context-free linguistic content and pragmatically enriched communicated content.

    • Habitual voting : origins and consequences 

      Górecki, Maciej A. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)
      The thesis studies the phenomenon and the concept of habitual voting. It focuses on the phenomenon of habitual turnout, the tendency for a stable propensity to vote (or abstain) to form during the period of a few initial ...

    • Peaks and Troughs: Economics and Political Economy of Central Bank Independence Cycles 

      Romelli, Davide (Oxford University Press, 2019)
      This chapter investigates the endogenous evolution of central bank institutional design over the past four decades. From a theoretical perspective, it employs a stylized political economy model to highlight some key ...

    • Authoritarian Predispositions and Attitudes towards Redistribution 

      Arikan, Gizem (2019)
      Authoritarian predispositions are associated with a preference for order, certainty and security. Using data from European Social Surveys (ESS), we show that this association extends to attitudes towards redistributive ...

    • Accomplishing consumer selves and relations : analysing the talk-in-interaction of preschoolers' focus groups 

      Freeman, Olivia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2011)
      This study furthers sociological understanding of children as consumers by adopting a CA-infomied discourse analytical approach to examining preschoolers' talk-ininteraction around commercial material artefacts in a focus ...

    • Deliberative democracy, deliberative polls and citizens' juries 

      French, Damien (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2009)
      This thesis contains a critical analysis of deliberative democracy. I present the normative arguments for the theory in the context of a discussion of how to explicate democracy more generally, and I assess these ...

    • Essays in option pricing 

      Delaney, Laura (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2012)
      In this thesis I explore option valuation from a theoretical standpoint and also from an empirical perspective. In particular, I address the issue of irreversible decision making under uncertainty (real options) applied ...

    • The global return on capital, the Lucas Paradox and the Savings Glut 

      Daly, Kevin J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Economics, 2010)
      This thesis is composed of three chapters related to the measurement, analysis and application of cross-country data on the return on physical capital. In Chapter 1, we derive a database of returns on physical capital that ...

    • The metaphysics of 18th century natural religion 

      Curtin, Thomas John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2011)
      The main focus of this dissertation concerns the influence that Malebranche's conception of causation, which understands causal power in terms of absolute necessity, had upon the writings of George Berkeley and David Hume, ...

    • Decision making in the Council of Ministers of the European Union 

      Cross, James (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2011)
      This thesis examines legislative decision making in the European Union with a specific focus upon decision making in the Council of Ministers. It examines the manner in which member states seek to influence the legislative ...