Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Wittgenstein and scepticism about meaning and rule-following : a Kripkean reading
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2011)In this thesis, I propose a defence of Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein's later discussion of meaning and rule-following. The most striking feature of Kripke's Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language (WRPL) ... -
The Schreber case : towards a philosophical construction of madness
(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 ... -
Substantial priority : an essay in fundamental mereology
(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 ... -
Conservation Laws and Interactionist Dualism
(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
(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
(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
(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. -
The metaphysics of 18th century natural religion
(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, ... -
Infinite emotion : Matte Blanco's bi-logic in psychoanalytic context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2010)This thesis attempts to outline and assess Matte Blanco's theory of bilogic, and place it in psychoanalytic context using comparative analysis. Bilogic is studied in relation to Freud, Klein and Bion. These particular ps ... -
Language, displacement and censorship : a philosophical analysis of Sigmund Freud's common-sense method of dream-interpretation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2002)This thesis is a contribution to the tradition in philosophy of psychoanalysis in analytic philosophy of viewing Sigmund Freud's method of interpretation as an extension of common-sense psychology. The thesis addresses the ... -
Weakness of will and practical reason
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2004)This thesis argues that a correct understanding of weakness of will (that is, freely failing to act as one thinks one has most reason to act) is crucial to a correct understanding of practical reason. Central to a theory ... -
Freud's psychoanalysis of religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2000)Freud was part of a long tradition of non-believers who offered a story about how religions originated. Notable works in this tradition include Hume's The Natural History of Religion and Feuerbach's The Essence of Christianity. ... -
Time Travel and Counterfactual Asymmetry
(2021)We standardly evaluate counterfactuals and abilities in temporally asymmetric terms—by keeping the past fixed and holding the future open. Only future events depend counterfactually on what happens now. Past events do ... -
Ideas and Explanation in Early Modern Philosophy
(2021)Malebranche argues that ideas are representative beings existing in God. He defends this thesis by an inference to the best explanation of human perception. It is well known that Malebranche’s theory of vision in God ... -
On the disunity of the sciences and Ceteris Paribus laws
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2006)This thesis examines the claim that the sciences are disunified. Chapter 1 outlines and introduces different accounts of the stratification of the sciences in the literature, in particular, Unificationism, Disunificationism, ... -
Anscombe's philosophy of action and its origins
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2006)G. E. M. Anscombe's work is seminal to action theory. Her major work in this area, Intention, first published in 1957, has been very influential in shaping the modern debate on issues such as the nature of action, the ... -
Quine between Russell's extreme realism and Carnap's extreme relativism : a coherent alternative?
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2006)In the philosophical literature of the past century few if any philosophers present a greater wealth of ideas or pose more important problems than W. V. Quine. In spite of the diversity of his contributions to philosophy, ... -
Seeking Spinoza: The Spinozistic Origins of Early Psychological Theory in Wundt, James and Freud
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2019)This thesis investigates the previously unexamined convergence between Spinoza's monistic philosophy of psychology and early psychological theory. It argues that the three 'founding fathers' of the field of psychology, ... -
Causation: Further Themes
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The role of Kinêsis and Statis in Plato's Sophist : an inquiry into the two forgotten Megista Genê of the Sophist
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2017)This dissertation addresses the general question of the relation between the problem of being and the theory of the five great kinds (megista genê) in Plato’s dialogue the Sophist. In contemporary scholarship, the two ...
