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  • Transcendentalism without Idealism: An Essay on Kant and Wittgenstein 

    Nota, Simone (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 

    Toth, Robert (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 

    Fazekas, Samantha (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 

    Jiao, Liming (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 

    Moriarty, Clare (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 ...

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