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Back to the Present: How Not to Use Counterfactuals to Explain Causal Asymmetry
(2022)A plausible thought is that we should evaluate counterfactuals in the actual world by holding the present ‘fixed’; the state of the counterfactual world at the time of the antecedent, outside the area of the antecedent, ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(ESRI, 2011)The financial crisis of the last three years has seen a dramatic change in the EU financial sector. Since the early 1990s, with the completion of the internal market, there had been a growing trend towards an EU financial ... -
The Banking Sector and Recovery in the EU Economy
(2010)Banks within Europe have become larger and more international. We use a micro data set to investigate the impact of size on banks Net Interest Margin and show larger banks lower borrowing costs for firms which raises ... -
Banking supervision and external auditors: Theory and empirics
(2020)This paper investigates the role of external auditors in banking sector supervision from a theoretical, institutional and empirical perspective. We first present a simple principal-agent framework that highlights the ... -
Base-load Cycling on a System with Significant Wind Penetration
(2010)Certain developments in the electricity sector may result in suboptimal operation of base-load generating units in countries worldwide. Despite the fact they were not designed to operate in a flexible manner, increasing ... -
Behavioural Economics and Policymaking: Learning from the Early Adopters
(ESRI, 23/02/2012)This paper critically examines initial applications of Behavioural Economics (BE) to policymaking. It focuses primarily but not exclusively on what can be learnt from the early adopters of policies inspired by BE, notably ... -
Berkeley on Unperceived Objects and the Publicity of Language
(2017)Berkeley’s immaterialism aims to undermine Descartes’s skeptical arguments by denying that the connection between sensory perception and reality is contingent. However, this seems to undermine Berkeley’s (alleged) defense ... -
Berkeley's Analyst: Rigour and Rhetoric
(King's College London, 2018)Consider the following puzzle: in 1732, Berkeley published Alciphron, and with it a sweeping pragmatic vindication of concepts whose terms fail to represent clear ideas. In that pragmatic semantics, he uses mathematical ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 1: Homer, Descartes and Pope
(2023)Berkeley is best known for his immaterialism and the texts that extol it—the Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous. He made his case by treatise, then by dialogue, and this tendency ... -
Berkeley's Gland Tour into Speculative Fiction Part 2: Margaret Cavendish and Berkeley's Attitudes Towards Women
(2023)In Part 1, we explored how Berkeley drew from Homeric literature and used literary techniques such as satire to challenge his “freethinking” philosophical opponents in “The Pineal Gland” story published in The Guardian in ... -
Berkeley's Philosophy of Religion
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A bibliographic review of Fagel pamphlets as presented in the online version of the TCD 1872 printed catalogue
(2010)In 1962 E. Braches identified the following series of papamphlets, in 235 volumes, as being in the TCD Printed Catalogue: Fag. H. 1. 1-93, Fag. H. 2. 1-89 and Fag. H. 3. 1-53. H indicates the bay, 1,2,3 the shelf number ... -
Bochenski and Balance: System and History in Analytic Philosophy
(Academia, 2011)This paper praises, upholds and justifies the balance found in Bochenski's philosophical writings between a systematic interest in theoretical questions and a purely historical approach to philosophy. The drawbacks of the ... -
Bosnian post-refugee transnationalism : a case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2012)This thesis presents a sociological case study of Bosnian migrants in Ireland who are involved in post-refugee transnationalism. The focus of the thesis is on a group of programme refugees who arrived in Ireland two decades ... -
British Jewish opposition to Israel : the relationship between local and distant fields of contention in a social movement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2009)