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Nature's Complexity Alive: Farewell to Several Unificatory Cosmological Arguments for Monism

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Throughout history, numerous thinkers have claimed that monism—in the form of priority monism, existence monism, monotheistic monism, or versions that posit an extra‐cosmic ultimate being—theoretically surpasses pluralism, above all by positing a unified universe.
Lok‐Chi Chan
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The quintom theory of dark energy after DESI DR2. [PDF]

Natl Sci Rev
Cai Y, Ren X, Qiu T, Li M, Zhang X.
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Life, but Not as We Know It: Why Fine‐Tuning Arguments Fail

Noûs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Definitions of “life” and theories of life are systematically neglected in arguments for and from fine‐tuning. Despite claims to be neutral about the definition of “life,” fine‐tuning arguments generally presuppose that life requires a form of structural complexity only afforded by physicochemical complexity of the sort with which we are ...
Joe Gough
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The orbital dynamics of the LMC and SMC about the Milky Way. [PDF]

Astron Astrophys Rev
Besla G, Kallivayalil N.
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A Universe of Earths: Our Planet and Other Worlds, from Copernicus to NASA. Dennis Danielson and Christopher M. Graney. New York: Oxford UP, 2025. xv + 185pp. ISBN 13: 9780197803516. $34.95 (hardcover)

Milton Quarterly, EarlyView.
John Leonard
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WHAT ONCE WAS SHALL BE AGAIN: PALAEOLITHIC BIFACES AT THE NEOLITHIC SITE OF GIV'AT RABI EAST

Oxford Journal of Archaeology, EarlyView.
Summary Giv'at Rabi East is a Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B site located in northern Israel, interpreted as a flint workshop. One area has been spatially identified as a ‘biface locality’; it is characterized by the presence of finished axes and preforms alongside débitage. Interestingly, Acheulean bifaces have also been recovered from this area.
Ella Assaf
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Surface Observables, 2-Knot Invariants, and Nonabelian Electric Fluxes. [PDF]

Commun Math Phys
Cattaneo AS.
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Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
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Dispersive lensing and shadows in RN-AdS spacetimes with dark energy and plasma: theory and observational constraints. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Pradhan A, Ghaderi K, Zeyauddin M.
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Blankness in post‐post‐postmodern poetry

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Jameson's “myth” identifies reification as the leading cause of cultural change. The myth also adumbrates the semiotic form of post‐postmodernism and post‐post‐postmodernism, which Jameson himself did not explore. One of the most extreme varieties of post‐post‐postmodern verse is the would‐be blank poem, pursued by Russian Futurists, Lettrists,
Shawn Normandin
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