Browsing by Subject "Philosophy, Ph.D."

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    • A world of modal states of affairs: an account of the metaphysics of De Re modality 

      Kelly, James (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)

    • Anscombe's philosophy of action and its origins 

      Meagher, Terence (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 ...

    • Chomsky Quine and naturalistic philosophy 

      King, David (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 ...

    • Duality and opposition in Heraclitus and modern philosophy of language and linguistics 

      Begley, Keith (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 ...

    • Falsificationism and Theory Adjudication : a critical rationalist critique of justificationist theories of science 

      Clarke, Steven William (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 ...

    • Freud's psychoanalysis of religion 

      Garvey, Brian P. (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. ...

    • Idealist philosophy of space : Kant's criticism of Berkeley 

      Storrie, Stefan (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 ...

    • Ideas, relations, and signs : 'intuition' and 'symbolic substitution'in Berkeley's theory of knowledge of nature 

      Nakano, Yasuaki (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 ...

    • Infinite emotion : Matte Blanco's bi-logic in psychoanalytic context 

      Alava, Pihla (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 ...

    • Kant on the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty 

      Urich, Georg (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2010)
      The central theme of this study is a curious and controversial feature of Kant's account of acting from duty in the Groundwork:, his apparent omission of the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty.

    • Kant's realism. An investigation into the essential interdependence of the formal and material conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge in Kant's epistemology 

      Weltecke, Manfred Karl (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2009)
      My central claim in this dissertation is that in Kant's epistemology (1) the conditions for the possibility of empirical knowledge (CPEK) comprise not only formal but also material conditions, i.e. CPEK = FCPK and MCPK, ...

    • Kant, Cantor, and the unconditioned 

      Zamora, Damián Bravo (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 ...

    • Language, displacement and censorship : a philosophical analysis of Sigmund Freud's common-sense method of dream-interpretation 

      McLoughlin, Joseph Henry (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 ...

    • On the disunity of the sciences and Ceteris Paribus laws 

      Tobin, Emma (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, ...

    • Plato's Theory of Perception 

      Larsen, Peter D. (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 ...

    • Quine between Russell's extreme realism and Carnap's extreme relativism : a coherent alternative? 

      Forde, Alan (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, ...

    • Radical minimalism and the possibility of a context-free semantics 

      Grant, Robert (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 

      Hamilton, Richard (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 ...

    • Substantial priority : an essay in fundamental mereology 

      Inman, Ross (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 ...

    • The argumentative unity of Plato's Parmenides 

      Horan, David (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 ...