Browsing School of Social Sciences and Philosophy by Sponsor "Trinity College Dublin (TCD)"
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Abstract objects and semantics: An essay on prospects and problems with abstraction principles as a means of justifying reference to abstract objects
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)The aim of this thesis is to reconsider the role that abstraction principles play, for neo-Fregeans, in establishing reference to abstract objects, in a way that brings to light both their significance and ... -
Akrasia: Plato and the limits of Education?
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2018)In this dissertation I shall argue for the following main claim: (1a) the motivational neutrality of reason. I will show that this concept reveals that, for Plato, (1b) reason is itself a necessary condition of the possibility ... -
All Welcome Here? Studies on Anti-Immigration Attitudes and Discriminatory Behaviour towards Ethnic Minorities in Irish and European Contexts
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Sociology, 2020)The main aim of this thesis is to examine prejudice, via anti-immigration sentiment, and discriminatory behaviour in Ireland and other European countries. The thesis consists of four separate papers which constitute four ... -
Costly Concessions: The Effect of Fragmentation of Self-Determination Movements on State Repression
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2021)There is a great variation in the way governments respond to dissent. Governments responses to internal challengers vary from peaceful accommodation to various forms of repression. This variation has important implications ... -
The deep roots of rebellion
(2022)This paper analyzes the triggers of rebellion and documents the historical roots of conflict using a unique dataset at the individual level. Drawing on evidence from the Famine (1845–1850) and its effect on the Irish ... -
Dignity and Duty: A Dignity Based Account of Human Rights and their Associated Duties
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The Effect of Group Identity on Support for Political Violence: Evidence from Northern Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2023)Why do people support political violence in peaceful contemporary democracies? In recent years scholars have increasingly sought to understand what drives individuals to adopt radical attitudes in societies where there is ... -
Essays in applied microeconomics. Research collaboration and dissemination in economics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This dissertation studies the production and dissemination of economic research in three essays. The chapters explore data on economic research articles and their authors to study, first, the effect of national borders ... -
Essays in Development Economics. The impact of investment promotion on attracting foreign direct investment in developing countries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)The importance of foreign direct investment (FDI) in economic development is increasingly acknowledged. FDI not only brings additional capital to the host economy, but foreign-invested enterprises also play a part in the ... -
Essays in developmental economics: The role of information and access to financial services in changing financial and employment behaviour and the resulting impact on household welfare
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2018)This thesis contains three essays that analyse the financial access and information awareness constraints faced by individuals and household in developing countries for managing income uncertainty and income shocks. The ... -
Essays in Family Economics and Gender
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2023)This dissertation consists of three essays on family economics and gender. It delves into the problems families face with an emphasis on women. The first essay looks at how parents with different preferences take joint ... -
Exchange rates, global value chains, market structure and trade restrictions as determinants of international prices
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Economics, 2021)This dissertation addresses questions in the areas of exchange rate pass-through into international prices. It examines the effect of strategic competition in the destination market and the use of foreign inputs in production ... -
The Impact of Anocracy on Terrorism: A Mixed-Method Approach
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2020)In this dissertation, the impact of anocracy on terrorism is examined. Intuitively, anocratic states or states with mixed regime features have been associated with greater terrorism, indicating that regime type has an ... -
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 ... -
The Lottery as a Democratic Institution
(The Policy Institute, 2013)Proponents of random selection in politics have identified at least eight potential contributions that the practice can make to the political process. These are: descriptive representation, prevention of corruption and/or ... -
A Pragmatic Bishop: George Berkeley's Theory of Causation in De motu
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2022)In this doctoral thesis, I will argue that in his De motu (1721, 'On motion'), Bishop George Berkeley (c.1684-1753) develops a pragmatist theory of causation regarding mechanical theories outlined previously with Newtonianism. ... -
The Relation between the What-It-Is and the Why-It-Is in Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, On the Parts of Animals, and Metaphysics
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)In this dissertation, I wish to examine the relation between the what-it-is and the why-it-is in Aristotle’s three treatises. The main conclusions I will defend in this thesis can be formulated as follows. In the Posterior ... -
Rorty On Religion
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Philosophy, 2020)This thesis aims to explore Rorty's pragmatic approach to religion and critically engage with it. In the core of this approach lies his distinction between private and public projects, and his plea for the privatization ... -
A theory of international strategic judicial dialogue: Convergence and Divergence between the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Sciences & Philosophy. Discipline of Political Science, 2024)International Courts interact with each other, especially by referring to each other's rulings, and the consequences of these interactions often assumed to be a progressive and stable convergence of their respective ...