Philosophy Student Awarded Prize for Best Postgraduate Research Paper

Posted on: 01 July 2008

Gwendoline Murphy, a postgraduate Philosophy student, received the award for best postgraduate research paper at the launch of Volume 7 of the Journal of Postgraduate Research on June 18 last. The paper entitled Puzzles as the Solution: A response to Geach’s Socratic Fallacy examines Peter Geach’s philosophical critique on the Socratic method.

The Journal of Postgraduate Research, which is published annually by the Graduate Students’ Union with the support of the Trinity Annual Fund in association with the Graduate Studies Office, enables Trinity postgraduate students to publish and disseminate the results of their work while still at an early stage of their research

Chaired by the Dean of Graduate Studies, Prof Carol O’Sullivan, and including Dr Jeffrey Kallen, Centre for Language and Communication Studies and Dr Anne Dolan, Department of History, the Advisory Committee short listed three papers for the award including Stergiani Kostopolou’s article on Learner self-assessment: Innovation and change in the culture of assessment, and Conor Mulvagh’s Reading between the lines: reinterpreting print as propaganda during the Confederation of Kilkenny, 1643-8.

Speaking at the launch, Acting Academic Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, Prof Moray McGowan congratulated Gwendoline and all the contributors to this year’s Journal and emphasised the importance of print and the new media for the dissemination of scholarship.

The launch of Volume 7, which covers several disciplines and research areas and also contains an invited submission from the graduate student researchers of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience (TCIN), was marked by a lecture given by Dr Paul Whalen, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at Dartmouth College.