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Fury and the antitheatrical prejudice: The violent power of play‐acting in the Cervantine picaresque

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract The article studies a cross‐generic relation between theatrical performance and the outbreak of violence in picaresque contexts across works by Miguel de Cervantes. It then proceeds to contextualize these persistent incidents within the philosophical history of antitheatricality.
Rasmus Vangshardt
wiley   +1 more source

Dynamic Buffer Management in Massively Parallel Systems: The Power of Randomness. [PDF]

ACM Trans Parallel Comput
Pham M, Yuan Y, Li H, Mou C, Tu Y, Xu Z, Meng J.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Defending The Open Future: Replies to MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract In this symposium piece, I reply to the diverse and wide‐ranging set of objections to my book (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False) set forth by MacFarlane, Green, Wasserman, and Bigg & Miller.
Patrick Todd
wiley   +1 more source

Linearism, Universalism and Scope Ambiguities

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I distinguish two possible families of semantics of the open future: Linearism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated with respect to a unique possible future history, and Universalism, according to which future tense sentences are evaluated universally quantifying on the histories passing through the moment of
Aldo Frigerio
wiley   +1 more source

A New Logic, a New Information Measure, and a New Information-Based Approach to Interpreting Quantum Mechanics. [PDF]

Entropy (Basel)
Ellerman D.
europepmc   +1 more source

All About Carnap's Babylon

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language (1937) contains an unfortunate passage, the ‘Babylon passage’, explaining what it is for a linguistic expression to be about a subject matter. Past criticism has only addressed Carnap's mistaken claim that the occurrence of a denoting term is necessary and sufficient for a linguistic expression to be about ...
C. Naomi Osorio‐Kupferblum
wiley   +1 more source

The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments

Philosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
Abstract This article assesses the metaphilosophical significance of the interpretation given to the ontological argument by two Wittgensteinian philosophers: Norman Malcolm and Morris Lazerowitz. Contrary to the usual approach to the subject, I do not consider what the ontological argument reveals about religious language and reasoning, but what it ...
Aleksei Rakhmanin
wiley   +1 more source