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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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Multiverse Fiction: A narratological approach to infinite worlds narratives
BetweenIn recent years, movies and tv shows have increasingly adopted the notion and the structure of the multiverse from superhero comics, resulting in a great popularity of the concept across a wider audience. The article aims to define the basic features of
Gabriele D'Amato, Luca Diani
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Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument
Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT So the Fine‐tuning Argument goes, because it is so unlikely for the physical constants of the laws of nature to have taken the values that they in fact take, we should significantly raise our credence that God exists. Simulation Arguments argue that our world might be (or, in stronger versions, that it probably is) a mere computer simulation ...
Nikk Effingham
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Vacuum decay in an interacting multiverse
Physics Letters B, 2016 We examine a new multiverse scenario in which the component universes interact. We focus our attention to the process of “true” vacuum nucleation in the false vacuum within one single element of the multiverse. It is shown that the interactions lead to a
S. Robles-Pérez +3 more
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The Problem of Psychonomic Harmony
Philosophy 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
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Feeling‐together, a strategy for honing madness into craft
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract This eclectic piece centers ethnographic practice within networks of feelings that co‐delineate an anthropologist's encounter with imaginative, world‐shaping forces—by carving into peer‐to‐peer repositories for self‐reflexivity. Incidents of madness can thus offer a deliberate resonance and clarity not only to insiders but also to the wider ...
Luke Kernan
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, 2007 I survey physics theories involving parallel universes, arguing that they form a natural four-level hierarchy of multiverses allowing progressively greater diversity. Level I: A generic prediction of inflation is an infinite ergodic universe, which contains Hubble volumes realizing all initial conditions -- including an identical copy of you about 10 ...
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Dorso‐Ventral and Night‐Day Regulation of Extracellular K+ Dynamics in Mouse Hippocampal Astrocytes
Glia, Volume 74, Issue 9, September 2026.Hippocampal astrocytic K+ buffering varies by region and time. Ventral astrocytes show faster K+ accumulation due to reduced Kir4.1 function. Such regional divergence is modulated by circadian shifts in Kir4.1 and gap junction coupling. ABSTRACT Astrocytes regulate extracellular potassium (K+) through multiple mechanisms operating across distinct ...
Nariman Kiani +5 more
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Unlocking the Marvel Multiverse: The Cosmic Nexus of Science, Philosophy, and Fiction through the Infinity Stones [PDF]
Философия и космологияMarvel’s cinematic depiction of the Infinity Stones, six powerful artifacts capable of reshaping reality, offers a unique lens through which to explore the convergence of science, philosophy, and popular culture.
Petro Katerynych
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Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 5, September 2026.ABSTRACT Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without
Ilan Kapoor
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