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Why Can’t God Know Something But Not Everything?
Studia Philosophiae ChristianaeThe paper is concerned with John Martin Fischer’s Bootstrapping View of God’s foreknowledge, which is intended to reconcile God’s foreknowledge with genuine contingency of the future. We argue that this view has two major faults. Firstly, its main theses
Anna Maria Karczewska +1 more
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Logical and Nomological Obstacles to Foreknowledge of the Future
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2019 A famous puzzle called “Grandmother Paradox” is used to argue against the feasibility of traveling backward in time because of the logical and nomological problems such travel involves, and not only because we don’t have the technology to make it ...
Erdinç Sayan, Hasan Cagatay
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Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
Symbolic Interaction, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-47, February 2026.The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chicago cohort, I reflect on some implications of his work and life, and the inseparable issues of understanding society.
Gary T. Marx
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The Real‐Time Advanced Ionospheric Data Assimilation (AIDA) Model
Space Weather, Volume 24, Issue 2, February 2026.Abstract The Advanced Ionospheric Data Assimilation (AIDA) is a real‐time data assimilation model of global 3D ionosphere and plasmasphere electron density. Changes in the local space environment can occur on very short timescales, particularly during disturbed geomagnetic conditions.
Benjamin Reid +5 more
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Sensory Systems as Cybernetic Systems that Require Awareness of Alternatives to Interact with the World: Analysis of the Brain-Receptor Loop in Norwich's Entropy Theory of Perception [PDF]
, 2009 Introduction & Objectives: Norwich’s Entropy Theory of Perception (1975 [1] -present) stands alone. It explains many firing-rate behaviors and psychophysical laws from bare theory.
Nizami, Lance
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If Analytic Philosophy of Religion is Sick, Can It Be Cured? [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I argue that, if ‘the overrepresentation of Christian theists in analytic philosophy of religion is unhealthy for the field, since they would be too much influenced by prior beliefs when evaluating religious arguments’ (De Cruz and De ...
Mizrahi, Moti
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Ordinary Morality Implies Atheism [PDF]
, 2009 I present a "moral argument" for the nonexistence of God. Theism, I argue, can’t accommodate an ordinary and fundamental moral obligation acknowledged by many people, including many theists.
Maitzen, Stephen
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Defectors cannot be detected during"small talk" with strangers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 To account for the widespread human tendency to cooperate in one-shot social dilemmas, some theorists have proposed that cooperators can be reliably detected based on ethological displays that are difficult to fake.
Joseph H Manson +2 more
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Non‐Directiveness and Authenticity in the Predictive Genetic Clinic
Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 2, February 2026.ABSTRACT The predictive genetic clinic is a space where counsellors use non‐directive counselling to facilitate asymptomatic patients at risk of carrying a dominantly inherited disease access a predictive genetic test. The social science literature has a history of examining practices within this clinic, but with little attention from the sociology of ...
Shane Doheny +4 more
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Three Men and an Abbey: The Cornaro Triple Portrait☆
Renaissance Studies, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 97-120, February 2026.Abstract This paper builds on the author’s recent identification of an early sixteenth‐century painting in the National Gallery of Ireland as containing rare portraits of Giorgio Cornaro (brother of Caterina, Queen of Cyprus) and his son Cardinal Francesco.
Rachel Healy
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