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How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Star formation powers optical line emission from the CGM. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Adv
Zhang H   +11 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Pascal's Hell

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Expected utility maximization with unbounded utilities implies that tiny probabilities of huge positive or negative payoffs can dominate overall expected‐utility calculations. In other words, it leads to fanaticism. Fanaticism is counterintuitive, as illustrated by cases such as Pascal's Mugging and the St. Petersburg paradox.
Petra Kosonen
wiley   +1 more source

The abundance and radial distribution of faint and ultra-faint dwarfs in galaxy clusters. [PDF]

open access: yesMon Not R Astron Soc
Sadhu P   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The problem of nomological harmony is the problem of explaining why the laws of nature match or apply to the states of the universe in a way that results in temporal evolution. The problem of psychophysical harmony is the problem of explaining why phenomenal states are paired with physical states and other phenomenal states in surprisingly ...
Joseph C. Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Stellar feedback drives the baryon deficiency in low-mass galaxies. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Adv
Yu H   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Death, Deprivation, and the Symmetry Problem

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT According to the deprivation account of the badness of death, death is bad for the one who dies because it deprives her of goods she would otherwise have enjoyed. This view faces the so‐called symmetry problem when one considers prenatal nonexistence. Scholars have proposed various solutions to this problem, but all of them encounter their own
Ryota Ishihara
wiley   +1 more source

Origins and lifetimes of secular and tidal bars in simulated disc galaxies. [PDF]

open access: yesMon Not R Astron Soc
Frosst M   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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