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Reality and the Unseen in the Early Fatwas of al‐Manār
The Muslim World, EarlyView.This article explores how discussions of the unseen in the fatwa section of Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā's journal, al‐Manār, related to larger processes of rationalization, epistemological boundary‐making, and modernization occurring at the turn of the twentieth century. A discursive analysis of a subset of fatwas published between 1903 and 1914 suggests that
Alice Catanzaro
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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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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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Bias Against Boltzmann Brains?
Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A popular indifference principle for self‐locating probability faces skeptical challenges, most notably a skeptical challenge concerning Boltzmann Brains. We examine the prospects for various views that prescribe some degree of bias in place of indifference.
Sinan Dogramaci +3 more
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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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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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On the Limits of Intransitive Coordination
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A growing number of authors suggest that concept coordination—the kind of relation we pick out when we say that the concepts of one or more individuals represent something as the same—is not a transitive relation. Here we consider global features of representational systems to break new ground in the assessment of the intransitivity view. From
Víctor M. Verdejo, Joost J. Joosten
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On Our Cosmic (In)significance
Ratio, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article discusses three interpretations of cosmic significance, all of which reveal something important about the notion of significance. Along the way, it proposes a unified view of significance by combining elements of each of the views.
Oskari Sivula
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the iconography of the Andromeda constellation as an intersex figure within medieval and early modern astrological traditions. It focuses on the origins of this imagery in the thirteenth‐century astrological writings of Scot and its reappearance nearly three centuries later in Ratdolt's illustrated 1482 edition of Hyginus'
Bar Leshem
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