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Supernumeration: Vagueness and Numbers
(Oxford University Press, 2010)After reviewing the principal and well-known defects of fuzzy logic this paper proposes to use numerical values in conjunction with a supervaluational approach to vagueness. The two principal ideas are degrees of candidature ... -
Why Categories Matter: Grossmann and Beyond
(Ontos, 2010)My copy of Reinhardt Grossmann?s The Categorial Structure of the World (CSW) contains the affectionate inscription ?To the Three Musketeers! With best wishes for their future adventures! R.G.? The other two musketeers ... -
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 Day Roosevelt was Assassinated
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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, ... -
Bochenski and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy
(Academia, 2011)This paper praises, upholds and justifies the balance found in Bochenski's philosophical writings between a systematic interest in theoretical questions and a purely historical approach to philosophy. The drawbacks of the ... -
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 ... -
Kant, Cantor, and the unconditioned
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2012)In this thesis I inquire into the possible connections between the philosophical problem that Immanuel Kant called the First Antinomy of Pure Reason and some of the paradoxes that were discovered in set theory in the second ... -
Understanding Omnipotence
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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. -
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 ... -
A human right to health?
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Four Categories - and More
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Thomas Reid on Character and Freedom
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Varieties of Parthood: Ontology learns from Engineering
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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 ...