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Beyond the Sober State: The Work of Drunkenness in British Bureaucracy
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article reports the drinking stories of British civil service clerical workers based at a large civil service office complex located in Newcastle upon Tyne between 1968 and 1993. It uses these stories to develop an account of state formation that takes seriously the place of joy, solidarity, contention, and exhaustion within public sector
Michael Vine
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Emergent Spacetime from Modular Motives [PDF]
Communications in Mathematical Physics, 2011 40 ...
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's ...
Joshua Babic
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Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
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A Constructivist Approach to Continuous Variables in Macroscopic Social Research
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, Volume 56, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper offers a constructivist approach to the analysis of continuous variables in macroscopic social research. Scientific constructivists have well developed ideas about how categories are situated in minds as bounded regions in conceptual space.
James Mahoney
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Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 563-575, September 2026.ABSTRACT How should we understand the duration of a pleasant or unpleasant sensation, insofar as its duration modulates how good or bad the experience is overall? Given that we seem able to distinguish between subjective and objective duration and that how well or badly someone's life goes is naturally thought of as something to be assessed from her ...
Andreas L. Mogensen
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On the emergent dynamics of fermions in curved spacetime [PDF]
EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2016 Relativistic spin-1/2 particles in curved spacetime are naturally described by Dirac theory, which is a dynamical and Lorentz-invariant field theory. In this work, we propose a non-dynamical fermion theory in 3+1 dimensions dubbed spinor topological field theory, built in terms of a spinor field and a Cartan connection related to de Sitter group.
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Lorentz violation in Dirac and Weyl semimetals
Physical Review Research, 2022 We propose a correspondence between the description of emergent Lorentz symmetry in condensed-matter systems and the established general effective field theory for Lorentz violation in fundamental theories of spacetime and matter. This correspondence has
V. Alan Kostelecký +4 more
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Aggregation and the Structure of Value
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 3, Page 619-644, September 2026.ABSTRACT Roughly, the view I call “Additivism” sums up value across time and people. Given some standard assumptions, I show that Additivism follows from two principles. The first says that how lives align in time cannot, in itself, matter. The second says, roughly, that a world cannot be better unless it is better within some period or another.
Weng Kin San
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