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Skull and partial skeleton of a new pachycetine genus (Cetacea, Basilosauridae) from the Aridal Formation, Bartonian middle Eocene, of southwestern Morocco. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2022
Gingerich PD, Amane A, Zouhri S.
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Relative Positionalism and Variable Arity Relations

Metaphysics, 2019
Maureen Donnelly’s (2016) relative positionalism correctly handles any fixed arity relation with any symmetry such a relation can have, yielding the intuitively correct way(s) in which that relation can apply.
T. Scott Dixon
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Artifacts Without Authors: Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Question of Authorship

Metaphysics
Artifacts are often characterized as intentional products of human activities, suggesting that they must have authors. However, contrary to this common characterization, I argue that there exist novel examples of artifacts that lack authors. This novelty
Nurbay Irmak
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The Form is Not a Proper Part in Aristotle’s Metaphysics Z.17, 1041b11–33

Metaphysics, 2018
When Aristotle argues at the 'Metaphysics' Z.17, 1041b11–33 that a whole, which is not a heap, contains ‘something else’, i.e. the form, besides the elements, it is not clear whether or not the form is a proper part of the whole.
Liva Rotkale
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Do Computer Simulations Include Digital Artifacts?

Metaphysics
In contemporary computer simulations, particles attract each other and form clusters, cells interact, and agents communicate with one another. This is at least how computer simulations are commonly described. But how can we make sense of such talk?
Claus Beisbart
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Real, Immediate, Multiple: Towards a Theory of Definition

Metaphysics
In ‘Senses of Essence’ Kit Fine tentatively proposed that one could take the notion of real definition as basic and define essence in terms of it. Building on Litland 2023 this paper begins to develop an account where the notion of full, immediate real ...
Jon Erling Litland
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Aristotle’s Plural Power Problem

Metaphysics
While Aristotle counts many things as members of the category of substances that seem intuitively to be substances, one wonders whether Aristotle is right not to include social entities like families, city-states, or mobs, in any of his explications of ...
Joel Cox
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Multidimensional Properties: Primitivism vs Reductionism

Metaphysics
The focus of this paper is on the metaphysical nature of multidimensional properties, properties like virtue, beauty, or health which can be had in different ways and to different degrees.
Robert Michels
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Essence and Ordinary Modality

Metaphysics
Fine’s “Essence and Modality” has prompted a revival of Aristotelian approaches to metaphysical modality. But what does it have to say about more ordinary modal facts: that this car can doo 100 mph, while that one can’t; that I must sneeze now; or that a
Barbara Vetter
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Reply to Barbara Vetter

Metaphysics
I follow Vetter in considering how the special modalities, such as metaphysical and nomological necessity, might be related to the ordinary expression of modal claims.
Kit Fine
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