Browsing School of Social Sciences and Philosophy by Title
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Just Peace and Presumptive Benefit: Using Fair Play Theory to Explain Political Obligation to Provisional Authority Arrangements
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)In March 2003, a coalition of western military powers invaded Iraq. By 9 April 2003, the government of Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, had been deposed. As a result, from April 2003 through June 2004, Iraq was not a truly ... -
Kant on the possibility of action from duty but not in accordance with duty
(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
(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
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Knowing what it means to be Irish : cultural identity and the production of Irish advertising
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)While advertising has long fascinated researchers in the social sciences, the majority of studies undertaken in this field have focused on consumer receptivity and interpretation, while generally ignoring the production ... -
Knowledge in sustainable development:from forms of knowledge to knowledge processes
(Blackwell, 2008)Lack of data or empirical information, insecurity about scientific knowledge, and disputes on how to manage knowledge, emerge as central concerns when we study changes in rural development under the influence of sustainability ... -
Labour Market Models in the EU
(CEPS, 2011)In the European Union, the most important labour market models that have been proposed for labour market reform are flexicurity and the transitional labour market. In this position paper, we conceptualise the models of ... -
Labour Relations and Modes of Employment
(NEUJOBS, an European Research Consortium, 16/07/2013)This Policy Brief contains policy implications on labour relations and modes of employment (Work Package 6), a collaborative EU-funded research project. -
Language and Ontological Emergence
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Language, displacement and censorship : a philosophical analysis of Sigmund Freud's common-sense method of dream-interpretation
(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 ... -
Learning: Operational and Educational Effectiveness Report
(2019)This deliverable outlines the development of the methodology to assess the learning through GAP by personnel from end user organizations in a training environment (Task 5.4) and the implementation of this methodology (Task ... -
Lexicalisation and the Origin of the Human Mind
(2014)This paper will discuss the origin of the human mind, and the qualitative discontinuity between human and animal cognition. We locate the source of this discontinuity within the language faculty, and thus take the origin ... -
Libertatea de exprimare si deplatformarea (Freedom of expression and deplatforming)
(Polirom, 2021)Some complain that either the right to freedom of speech or expression or people’s freedom is being restricted in recent times by calls for no platforming certain individuals. This paper aims to argue that such complaints ... -
Linked in by FDI: The role of firm level relationships for knowledge transfers in Africa and Asia.
(2020)This study combines evidence from interviews in seven countries with (i) government institutions responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), (ii) 102 multinationals (MNEs), and (iii) 226 domestic firms ... -
Liquid citizens? Towards a sociology of lesbian and gay intimate citizenship in the Republic of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2008)In this thesis, I argue that we can usefully explore Irish sexuality within the emergent frame of analysis that is known as sexual or intimate citizenship. While 'citizenship' has tended to be theorised as pertaining to ...
