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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
wiley   +1 more source

Narrative Understanding

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Much work in history, anthropology, sociology, and political science has a narrative form — the events described are emplotted into stories. A number of recent critics of narrative have argued that the story form is a poor vehicle for social scientific explanation, as it often misleads us about the causal structure of the social world ...
Alexander Prescott‐Couch
wiley   +1 more source

Quietist Elements in Adorno

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I take a closer look at Adorno's methodology, and specifically the question of how – in Adorno's view – philosophy ought to be done. In this, my aim is to see whether there might be ‘quietist’ elements in his methodological account, i.e. the meta‐philosophical position of quietism as it stands against (scientific) naturalism in
Christian Lamp
wiley   +1 more source

Reality Winners

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Lee Grieveson
wiley   +1 more source

Attention and Attendabilia: The Perception of Attentional Affordances

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Agents are continually faced with two related selection problems: i) the problem of selecting what to do from a space of possible behaviours; ii) the problem of selecting what to attend to from a space of possible attendabilia. We have psychological mechanisms that enable us to solve both types of problem.
Tom McClelland
wiley   +1 more source

Bullshit activities

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Frankfurt gave an account of “bullshit” as a statement made without regard to truth or falsity. Austin argued that a large amount of language consists of speech acts aimed at goals other than truth or falsity. We don't want our account of bullshit to include all performatives.
Kenny Easwaran
wiley   +1 more source

A Low-Cost Jamming Detection Approach Using Performance Metrics in Cluster-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. [PDF]

open access: yesSensors (Basel), 2021
Del-Valle-Soto C   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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