Browsing by Subject "Philosophy"
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Áille na hÍobartha: Léirmheas ar Áille na hÁille (de Paor).
(COMHAR, 2014-05)Breathnaíonn Marie Whelton ar leabhar fealsúnachta le Pádraig de Paor, Áille na hÁille, a bhriseann le múnla traidisiúnta na critice d'fhonn léargas úr a thabhairt dúinn ar fhoinse na litríochta. -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Conscience - an essay in moral psychology
(2009)The ultimate aim of this essay is to suggest that conscience is a very important part of human psychology and of our moral point of view, not something that can be dismissed as merely `a part of Christian theology?. The ... -
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 Day Roosevelt was Assassinated
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A deliberative account of causation: How the evidence of deliberating agents accounts for causation and its temporal direction
(Columbia University, 2016)In my dissertation I develop and defend a deliberative account of causation: causal relations correspond to the evidential relations we use when we decide on one thing in order to achieve another. Tamsin’s taking her ... -
A Fourteenth-Century Scholastic Dispute on Astrological Interrogations
(2021)This article examines and edits an anonymous text from the late 1330s (Quesitum fuit utrum per interrogationes …), which was written to refute the arguments presented in a lost quaestio disputata by an unknown Parisian ... -
Intellect and the One in Porphyry's Sententiae
(Elsevier, 2010)This article seeks to provide some support for the troublesome report of Damascius in the De Principiis that, for Porphyry, the first principle is the Father of the Noetic Triad?and thus more closely implicated with the ... -
Metaphysical Necessity Dualism
(2018)A popular response to the Exclusion Argument for physicalism maintains that mental events depend on their physical bases in such a way that the causation of a physical effect by a mental event and its physical base needn’t ... -
Neoplatonism in Nonnus' Dionysiaca: Aesthetics, Allegory, and Inspiration
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)My PhD thesis offers a sustained analysis of Nonnus of Panopolis Dionysiaca and its Neoplatonic influences. The 5th century epic-encomium was produced in the predominantly Christian literary environment of Alexandria or ... -
Ontic Generation: Getting Everything from the Basics
(Ontos, 2009)Properly executed, metaphysics consists in part of painstaking ontological detail and in part of grand systematic speculation. The distinction between these two aspects is not new: it is inspired by Wolff?s distinction ... -
Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods
(2020)It seems self‐evident that people prefer painful experiences to be in the past and pleasurable experiences to lie in the future. Indeed, it has been claimed that, for hedonic goods, this preference is absolute (Sullivan, ... -
The Peculiar Opinions of an Irish Platonist : The Life and Thought of Thomas Maguire
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Philosophy with Children How does the practice of philosophy nurture a young child's natural ability to think philosophically and encourage him/her to participate in a democratic community of enquiry?
(2017-06)Philosophy enables us to be critical, independent thinkers particularly in a fast-paced digital world. Philosophy with Children is a pedagogy whereby the voice of the child is upheld, their agency is enabled and their ... -
Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Schreber Case
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was a lawyer and judge, who wrote and published an account of his experiences in an asylum. This account was analysed by Freud, who believed that Schreber's dementia paranoides was the ... -
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 ... -
Shared decision‐making in maternity care: Acknowledging and overcoming epistemic defeaters
(2019)Shared decision-making involves health professionals and patients/clients working together to achieve true person-centred health care. However, this goal is infrequently realized, and most barriers are unknown. Discussion ... -
A Short Glossary of Metaphysics
(Routledge, 2009)NOTE: Many of the words in this glossary have everyday meanings which are different from these. We give only the more specialized philosophical meanings. JOHNSONIAN HEALTH WARNING: like all glossaries and dictionaries, ... -
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 ...