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The simplicity of physical laws

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 957-987, December 2025.
Abstract Physical laws are strikingly simple, yet there is no a priori reason for them to be so. I propose that nomic realists—Humeans and non‐Humeans—should recognize simplicity as a fundamental epistemic guide for discovering and evaluating candidate physical laws.
Eddy Keming Chen
wiley   +1 more source

Tracing chemical depletion in evolved binaries hosting second-generation transition discs. [PDF]

Mon Not R Astron Soc
Mohorian M, Kamath D, Menon M, Amarsi AM, Van Winckel H, Fava C, Andrych K.   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Peculiar velocities of galaxy clusters in a IllustrisTNG simulation based on mock observations of Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effects [PDF]

Kaiyi Du, Yong Shi, Tao Wang, Chenggang Shu   +3 more
openalex   +1 more source

Expected value, to a point: Moral decision‐making under background uncertainty

Noûs, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 1093-1125, December 2025.
Abstract Expected value maximization gives plausible guidance for moral decision‐making under uncertainty in many situations. But it has unappetizing implications in ‘Pascalian’ situations involving tiny probabilities of extreme outcomes. This paper shows, first, that under realistic levels of ‘background uncertainty’ about sources of value independent
Christian Tarsney
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering the integral spectral characteristics of the planetary nebula IC 4642. [PDF]

Sci Rep
Mohery M, Ali A, Hamam KA, Khames AA, Alsubaie AS.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Lessons from the void: What Boltzmann brains teach

Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 594-621, December 2025.
Abstract Some physical theories predict that almost all brains in the universe are Boltzmann brains, that is, short‐lived disembodied brains that are accidentally assembled as a result of thermodynamic or quantum fluctuations. Physicists and philosophers of physics widely regard this proliferation as unacceptable, and so take its prediction as a basis ...
Bradford Saad
wiley   +1 more source

Visionaries and Crackpots, Maniacs and Saints: Existential Risk and the Politics of Longtermism

Ratio, Volume 38, Issue 4, Page 268-278, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Despite advancing strong claims about our collective priorities, longtermism has received little attention in debates in political philosophy. I first provide an account of longtermism that highlights the way it departs from established work on intergenerational justice.
Alex McLaughlin
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of sequencing reads at scale using rdeval. [PDF]

Bioinformatics
Formenti G, Koo B, Sollitto M, Balacco J, Brajuka N, Burhans R, Duarte E, Giani AM, McCaffrey K, Medico JA, Myers EW, Smeds P, Nekrutenko A, Jarvis ED.   +13 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Nonparametric inference for Poisson‐Laguerre tessellations

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Volume 52, Issue 4, Page 1816-1851, December 2025.
Abstract In this paper, we consider statistical inference for Poisson‐Laguerre tessellations in ℝd$$ {\mathbb{R}}^d $$. The object of interest is a distribution function F$$ F $$ which describes the distribution of the arrival times of the generator points.
Thomas van der Jagt, Geurt Jongbloed, Martina Vittorietti   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source