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Explanation, justification, and egalitarianism
(Springer, 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 ... -
Social Anarchism and the Rejection of Moral Tyranny
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)This book aims to provide a philosophical defense of egalitarian anarchism, more popularly known as social anarchism. It is certainly not the first book to attempt to defend this position; numerous egalitarian anarchists ... -
Luck egalitarianism without moral tyranny
(Springer, 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 ... -
Conflicts of Rights
(Palgrave, 2025)It is often assumed that conflicts of rights are both common and inescapable. The main thesis of this chapter is that this assumption is questionable. First, I will define conflicts of rights and contrast the definition I ... -
Human rights and equality
(2025)Human rights are often thought to express an egalitarian idea. This chapter argues that the connection between human rights and equality is more tenuous than it first seems and a robust egalitarianism is neither the input ... -
Arche as energeia : a study of metaphysics Theta
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2017)The central thesis and its significance: My central thesis in this dissertation is this: Aristotle's Metaphysics Theta is an argumentative unity, both in itself and within the overall project of the Metaphysics. What unifies ... -
'Real and positive hurt' : an examination of justice in the writings of Adam Smith
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2017)In this thesis, I examine the notion of justice in the writings of Adam Smith. I argue that Smith's conception of justice is broader than the commutative conception of justice. The commutative concept of justice is linked ... -
Divine Omnipotence: Aquinas and Swinburne
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2024)Abstract The goal of this thesis is to establish whether Thomas Aquinas's conception of God's omnipotence can survive critical interaction with the views of Richard Swinburne. It first defines in detail what Aquinas thinks ... -
Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and Wittgenstein
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2024)In this work, I compare Kant and Wittgenstein’s critical philosophies with respect to Transcendental Idealism, as a doctrine meant to “prove” the possibility of Metaphysics. My Central Question is: Is the early Wittgenstein ... -
The Structure of Forms in Plato's Theory of Forms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)The overall aim of this PhD dissertation is to consider and examine the relations between Forms in Plato?s theory of Forms. Undertaking this task does not require a full account of Plato?s theory of Forms, rather it requires ... -
Hannah Arendt's Unwritten Theory of Political Judgment
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)This project develops a new reading of Hannah Arendt’s interpretation of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetic reflective judgment. The aim of this project is to justify Arendt’s claim that she brings Kant’s unwritten political ... -
A reliabilist-teleological account of Plato's theory of knowledge based on the Timaeus, the Republic and the Theaetetus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2023)Whether, in Plato's epistemology, the Forms can be grasped without using the inferior epistemic capacities, and whether the inferior epistemic capacities contribute to one's grasp of F-ness and the Form F - These are the ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women
(2023)In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
(2023)Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it—the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency ... -
Self-Ownership and the Duty to Assist
(2022)Libertarians are attracted to the self-ownership thesis because it seems to satisfy four important theoretical desiderata. First, the thesis treats all persons equally by assigning them the same initial set of rights. ... -
How to Explain the Direction of Time
(2022)Reichenbach explains temporally asymmetric phenomena by appeal to entropy and ‘branch structure’. He explains why the entropic gradients of isolated subsystems are oriented towards the future and not the past, and why we ... -
Ructions over Fluxions
(2022)Following the publication of Berkeley's caustic critique of calculus, The Analyst (1734), numerous figures in the scientific world responded to the text's allegations of rigour violations and a culture of mathematics-laced ... -
Freedom's Values: the Good and the Right
(2022)How is freedom valuable? And how should we go about defining freedom? In this essay, I discuss a distinction between two general ways of valuing freedom: one appeals to the good (e.g., to freedom's contribution to well-being); ... -
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. ...
