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Refusal and Aporia: At the Limits of Anthropological Knowledge
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 339-348, June 2026.ABSTRACT As anthropologists increasingly take up refusal, opacity, and other forms of resistance to surveillance and subjugation, this paper questions what implications this has for the discipline in practice. Considering anthropology's enduring centrality in defining what it means to be human, including the various ways that this category has been ...
Cory‐Alice André‐Johnson
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How Ontic Structural Realism would Formalize Scientific Progress
ATHENS JOURNAL OF SCIENCES, 2021 This essay tries to make a tangential cut between the debate that seeks the most adequate definition of scientific progress (involving authors such as K. Popper, T Kuhn, A Bird or J Saatsi) and the debate on the viability of structural realism to be considered the best epistemological approach to the understanding of nature (B van Fraassen, J Ladyman ...
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Noûs, Volume 60, Issue 2, Page 264-292, June 2026.Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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The Ontology of General Relativity [PDF]
, 2019 General Relativity generated various early philosophical interpretations. His adherents have highlighted the "relativization of inertia" and the concept of simultaneity, Kantians and Neo-Kantians have underlined the approach of certain synthetic ...
Sfetcu, Nicolae
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Explaining Leibniz-equivalence as difference of non-inertial appearances: dis-solution of the Hole Argument and physical individuation of point-events [PDF]
, 2006 "The last remnant of physical objectivity of space-time" is disclosed in the case of a continuous family of spatially non-compact models of general relativity (GR). The {\it physical individuation} of point-events is furnished by the intrinsic degrees of
Lusanna, Luca, Pauri, Massimo
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Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026.Abstract Marvel's 2022 blockbuster film Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was marked by the death of lead actor Chadwick Boseman in 2020, resulting in the cinematic death of his character T'Challa. For US Black audiences, the imagined nation of Wakanda served as more than entertainment, but a diasporic “home” at a time of deepening anti‐Blackness and ...
Marissa Smith Morgan
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Realismo Estructural Óntico y estructuras físicas
ManuscritoRESUMEN El Realismo Estructural Óntico (REO) afirma que la ontología del mundo físico debe ser (re)concebida de modo que las puras estructuras sean sus entidades básicas. Objetos y propiedades deben ser eliminados en favor de las estructuras. No obstante,
Bruno Borge
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Moderate structural realism about space-time [PDF]
, 2018 This paper sets out a moderate version of metaphysical structural realism that stands in contrast to both the epistemic structural realism of Worrall and the—radical—ontic structural realism of French and Ladyman. According to moderate structural realism,
Esfeld, Michael, Lam, Vincent
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Family Process, Volume 65, Issue 1, March 2026.ABSTRACT Commemorative naming—naming a child after a deceased family member—is a culturally rooted practice with profound emotional and relational implications. Although previous research has explored naming traditions from sociological and cultural angles, little attention has been given to the psychological experience of those who carry such names ...
S. Shorer, M. Mahat‐Shamir
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The structure of causal sets [PDF]
, 2011 More often than not, recently popular structuralist interpretations of physical theories leave the central concept of a structure insufficiently precisified.
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