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The simplicity of physical laws
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists—Humeans and non‐Humeans—should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating candidate physical laws.
Eddy Keming Chen
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Possibilities for Methanogenic and Acetogenic Life in Molecular Clouds. [PDF]
Life (Basel)Feng L.
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Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty
Noûs, EarlyView.Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
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Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
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Gravitational Hamiltonian Systems and the Retarded Gravity Inequality. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Yahalom A.
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A New Hilbert's Hotel Argument Against Past‐Eternalism
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper offers a new formulation of the “Hilbert's Hotel Argument” (HHA) which is superior to existing formulations because it (1) demonstrates that HH is logically impossible in the concrete world, (2) takes into account the need to consider the assumptions of HHA, and (3) offers a reply to an important objection concerning the validity of
Andrew Ter Ern Loke, Eli Haitov
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Cosmology and fundamental physics with the ELT-ANDES spectrograph. [PDF]
Exp Astron (Dordr)Martins CJAP +22 more
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Observation Operators and Cosmology [PDF]
Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 1969 openaire +2 more sources
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Weather variability and shocks pose significant challenges for tropical developing countries, making it crucial to understand their effects on consumption to address the existing deficiencies among the most vulnerable groups. This study examines the impact of weather variability and shocks on household consumption in Panama, utilizing repeated
Ambar Lineth Chavez Espinosa +1 more
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Astronomy from the Moon: the next decades (part 2). [PDF]
Philos Trans A Math Phys Eng SciSilk J, Crawford I, Elvis M, Zarnecki J.
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