Philosophy: Recent submissions
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Varieties of Epistemic Freedom
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A Deliberative Approach to Causation
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Time, Flies, and Why We Can?t Control the Past
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A Kantian Reconciliation of Moral Realism and Moral Supervenience
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2018)The 'Moral Supervenience' thesis is a deeply intuitive and popular one within philosophy, and can be defined as follows: "There can be no changes in any moral properties without at least some kind of change in non-moral ... -
Duality and opposition in Heraclitus and modern philosophy of language and linguistics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2016)Aim: To investigate the phenomenon of Duality, that is, opposition in its many forms. In particular, as it appears in Heraclitus’ philosophy and his reaction to his predecessors, in the form of the thesis, apparently ... -
Akrasia: Plato and the limits of Education?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2018)In this dissertation I shall argue for the following main claim: (1a) the motivational neutrality of reason. I will show that this concept reveals that, for Plato, (1b) reason is itself a necessary condition of the possibility ... -
Language and Ontological Emergence
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Ideas, relations, and signs : 'intuition' and 'symbolic substitution'in Berkeley's theory of knowledge of nature
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2014)The chief aim of this thesis is to develop an interpretation of Berkeley's theory of knowledge of nature through clarification of two prominent motifs which underlie it 'intuition' and 'symbolic substitution'. I regard ... -
Chomsky Quine and naturalistic philosophy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2015)[Exerpt from Introduction, page 6] I will argue that while Chomsky's claims about language acquisition have been tested over the last fifty years and have not all stood up to critical scrutiny, Quine's views have not been ... -
The argumentative unity of Plato's Parmenides
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2014)The purpose of this thesis is to make the case that Plato's dialogue Parmenides constitutes an argumentative unity whereby certain philosophic difficulties presented in the first part of the dialogue are resolved by the ... -
Falsificationism and Theory Adjudication : a critical rationalist critique of justificationist theories of science
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2014)My aim in this thesis is to present a critique of the currently dominant approach to this problem, the broad-ranging epistemological position described herein as "justificationism." This critique of justificationism—the ... -
What does it mean to say that truth is plural?
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Understanding Omnipotence
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Infinite Power and Finite Powers
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Matter, God, and Nonsense: Berkeley's Polemic Against the Freethinkers in the Three Dialogues
(Oxford University Press, 2018)
