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A systematic review and meta-analysis of the efficacy of organic acids in reducing Salmonella colonization in the crop and ceca of broilers. [PDF]

open access: yesPoult Sci
Wang J   +14 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Laws and Reasons Why

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

Biochar improves the nutrient cycle in sandy-textured soils and increases crop yield: a systematic review. [PDF]

open access: yesEnviron Evid
Bekchanova M   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Simulations All the Way Up! An Atheist's Response to the Fine‐Tuning Argument

open access: yesAnalytic 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
wiley   +1 more source

Against Modal Humeanism

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Ted Sider defends mereological nihilism against the possibility of gunk. He argues that if we accept modal Humeanism, then the possibility of gunk poses no threat to nihilism. This paper argues that Sider's argument fails because nihilism remains vulnerable to the possibility of gunk, even under modal Humeanism.
Sanggu Lee
wiley   +1 more source

How Theists Can Answer the “Why be Moral?” Question: An Indirect Reason‐Generation Account

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, I give a new type of theistic answer to the “Why be moral?” question. After briefly clarifying the version of the question I'm concerned with, as well as extant theistic answers to the question, I argue for a new kind of answer. Roughly, while on standard answers, future (post death) benefits directly generate present reason to ...
Justin Morton
wiley   +1 more source

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