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  1. External Cause of the Universe.Dominik Filipp - manuscript
    The article explains how the primordial singularity can be understood as a cause having brought the Universe into empirical existence. It also addresses the nonempirical nature of such a cause.
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  2. The Impossibility of an Infinite Number of Elapsed Planck Times.James Goetz - manuscript
    This note briefly discusses the observation of elapsed time in a flat universe while exploring the argument of past-eternal time versus emergent time in cosmology. A flat universe with an incomplete past forever has a finite age. Despite an infinite number of Planck time coordinates independent of phenomena and endless expansion, a flat universe never develops an age with an infinite number of Planck times. This observation indicates the impossibility of infinitely elapsed time in the future or past, which limits (...)
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  3. A Philosophical Critique of Evolution as a Concept.Haulianlal Guite - manuscript
  4. The Aethereal Universe.Andrew Thomas Holster - manuscript
  5. On mathematical constructions of time and relativity.Varanasi Ramabrahmam - manuscript
    The mathematical constructions, physical structure and manifestations of physical time are reviewed. The nature of insight and mathematics used to understand and deal with physical time associated with classical, quantum and cosmic processes is contemplated together with a comprehensive understanding of classical time. Scalar time (explicit time or quantitative time), vector time (implicit time or qualitative time), biological time, time of and in conscious awareness are discussed. The mathematical understanding of time in special and general theories of relativity is critically (...)
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  6. Cosmological Tests of Gravity.Nicolae Sfetcu - manuscript
    The current cosmological models are built based on general relativity. The solutions of the specific equations, Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker, allow to model the evolution of the universe starting from the Big Bang. Some of the parameters of the universe have been established by observations. Based on these, and other observational data, the models can be tested. Predictions include the initial abundance of chemical elements formed in a period of nucleosynthesis during the Big Bang period, the subsequent structure of the universe, cosmic background (...)
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  7. Teste gravitaționale cosmologice.Nicolae Sfetcu - manuscript
    Modelele cosmologice actuale sunt construite pe baza relativității generale. Soluțiile ecuațiilor specifice, Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker permit modelarea evoluției universului pornind de la Big Bang. O parte din parametrii universului au fost stabiliți prin observații. Pe baza acestora, și altor date observaționale, se pot testa modelele. Predicțiile includ abundența inițială de elemente chimice formate într-o perioadă de nucleosinteză în perioada Big Bang, structura ulterioară a universului, radiația cosmică de fond, etc. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.22204.59525.
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  8. What Can We Learn from Stringy Black Holes?Nick Huggett - 2018
    This paper aims to address conceptual issues concerning black holes in the context of string theory, with the aim of illuminating the ontological unification of gravity and matter, and the interpretation of cosmological models. §1 describes the central concepts of the theory: the fungibility of matter and geometry, and the reduction of gravity and supergravity. The ‘standard’ interpretation presented draws on that implicit in the thinking of many (but not all) string theorists, though made more explicit and systematic than usual. (...)
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  9. Negative-Energy Matter and the Direction of Time.J. C. Lindner - forthcoming
    This report offers a modern perspective on the problem of negative energy, based on a reexamination of the concept of time direction as it arises in a classical and quantum-mechanical context. From this analysis emerges an improved understanding of the general-relativistic stress-energy of matter as being a manifestation of local variations in the energy density of zero-point vacuum fluctuations. Based on those developments, a set of axioms is proposed from which are derived generalized gravitational field equations which actually constitute a (...)
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  10. The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism.Baptiste Le Bihan - 2024 - Journal for General Philosophy of Science / Zeitschrift für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie.
    Penrose's conformal cyclic cosmology describes the cosmos as a collection of successive universes, the so-called aeons. The beginning and ending of our universe are directly connected to two other, anterior and posterior, universes. Penrose considers but rules out a different interpretation of conformal cyclic cosmology: that the beginning of our universe is connected to its own end in a cosmic loop. The paper argues that the view, aeon monism, should be regarded as a natural interpretation of conformal cyclic cosmology and (...)
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  11. Cosmovisões e Realidades: a filosofia de cada um. (3rd edition).Roberto Arruda (ed.) - 2023 - São Paulo: Terra à Vista.
    Não é pensando que criamos mundos. É compreendendo o mundo que aprendemos a pensar. Cosmovisão é um termo que deve significar um conjunto de fundamentos dos quais emerge uma compreensão sistêmica do Universo, seus componentes como a vida, o mundo em que vivemos, a natureza, o fenômeno humano e suas relações. Trata-se, portanto, de um campo da filosofia analítica alimentado pelas ciências, cujo objetivo é esse conhecimento agregado e epistemologicamente sustentável sobre tudo o que somos e contemos, que nos cerca (...)
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  12. Environmental legacies of the Copernican universe.Jean-Marie Kauth - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington.
    This book re-envisions the cosmos with the holistic, spherical imagination of the Middle Ages, figured in circles, cycles, epicycles, equants, and offers a new perspective on the power of images and metaphors to shape the way humans see the universe and their own role in it.
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  13. Russkiĭ kosmizm: N.F. Fedorov, K.Ė. T︠S︡iolkovskiĭ, V.I. Vernadskiĭ, A.L. Chizhevskiĭ.A. G. Gacheva, B. I. Pruzhinin & T. G. Shchedrina (eds.) - 2022 - Moskva: ROSSPĖN.
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  14. Overlapping heavens in the wall paintings of Mogao Cave 285 at Dunhuang : an art-historical study of the syncretistic images on its west wall and ceiling.Satomi Hiyama - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  15. Overlapping heavens in the wall paintings of Mogao Cave 285 at Dunhuang : an art-historical study of the syncretistic images on its west wall and ceiling.Satomi Hiyama - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  16. Buddhist cosmology in Bhutanese murals : a visual negotiation between Abhidharma and Kālacakra systems.Eric Huntington - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  17. Buddhist cosmology in Bhutanese murals : a visual negotiation between Abhidharma and Kālacakra systems.Eric Huntington - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  18. Geometrizing Chinese astronomy? The view from a diagram in the Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq by al-Nīsābūrī.Yoichi Isahaya - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  19. Geometrizing Chinese astronomy? The view from a diagram in the Kashf al-ḥaqāʼiq by al-Nīsābūrī (d. ca. 1330).Yoichi Isahaya - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  20. From heaven to earth : circles and the construction of the imperial order in late Ming and early Qing China.Catherine Jami - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  21. From heaven to earth : circles and the construction of the imperial order in late Ming and early Qing China.Catherine Jami - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  22. Greek astral sciences in China.Bill M. Mak - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
  23. Greek astral sciences in China.Bill M. Mak - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  24. Introduction.Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  25. Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches.Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.) - 2022 - Boston: Brill.
    The history of cosmology is often understood in terms of the development of modern science, but Asian cosmological thought and practice touched on many aspects of life, including mathematics, astronomy, politics, philosophy, religion, and art. Because of the deep pervasion of cosmology in culture, many opportunities arose for transmissions of cosmological ideas across borders and innovations of knowledge and application in new contexts. Taking a wider view, one finds that cosmological ideas traveled widely and intermingled freely, being frequently reinterpreted by (...)
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  26. Introduction.Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  27. The Buddhist universe in early modern Japan : cosmological dispute and the epistemology of vision.D. Max Moerman - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  28. The Buddhist universe in early modern Japan : cosmological dispute and the epistemology of vision.D. Max Moerman - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  29. Eclipse dragons, seasonal change, and the salvation of light : a case of overlapping cosmologies in Manichaeism.Adrian C. Pirtea - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  30. Eclipse dragons, seasonal change, and the salvation of light : a case of overlapping cosmologies in Manichaeism.Adrian C. Pirtea - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  31. Deciphering Aristotle with Chinese medical cosmology : Nanban Unkiron and the reception of Jesuit cosmology in early modern Japan.Hiraoka Ryuji - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  32. Deciphering Aristotle with Chinese medical cosmology : Nanban Unkiron and the reception of Jesuit cosmology in early modern Japan.Hiraoka Ryuji - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  33. The influence of Assyriology on the study of Chinese astronomy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.John Steele - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  34. The influence of Assyriology on the study of Chinese astronomy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.John Steele - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  35. Physics rewritten.Gabriel Vacariu - 2022 - Dissertation, University of Bucharest
    Physics Overwritten in a new perspective: “Epistemologically Different Worlds” (Einsteins’ relativities without “spacetime”, quantum me-chanics, pre-Big Bang, Big Bangs and “inflation”, dark mat-ter and dark energy, the superstring theory, and Bohr’s com-plementarity) -/- .
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  36. Chinese-Muslims as agents of astral knowledge in late imperial China.Dror Weil - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping Cosmologies in Asia: Transcultural and Interdisciplinary Approaches. Brill.
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  37. Chinese-Muslims as agents of astral knowledge in late imperial China.Dror Weil - 2022 - In Bill M. Mak & Eric Huntington (eds.), Overlapping cosmologies in Asia: transcultural and interdisciplinary approaches. Brill.
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  38. Platonism and Christianity in late ancient cosmology: God, soul, matter.Johannes Zachhuber & Ana Schiavoni-Palanciuc (eds.) - 2022 - Boston: Brill.
    Cosmology was central to many intellectual currents in late antiquity. Inspired by classical texts, notably Plato's Timaeus and Aristotle's Physics, thinkers of the period pondered questions about the world's origin and its physical constitution. This volume, with contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars, illustrates the range and diversity of these reflections. Fascination for cosmology connected Plato and Proclus with Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. For readers interested in ancient philosophy, early Christian theology, and the history of science, this volume (...)
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  39. Are infinite explanations self-explanatory?Alexandre Billon - 2021 - Erkenntnis 88 (5):1935-1954.
    Consider an infinite series whose items are each explained by their immediate successor. Does such an infinite explanation explain the whole series or does it leave something to be explained? Hume arguably claimed that it does fully explain the whole series. Leibniz, however, designed a very telling objection against this claim, an objection involving an infinite series of book copies. In this paper, I argue that the Humean claim can, in certain cases, be saved from the Leibnizian “infinite book copies” (...)
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  40. Other stars, other planets, and other life: a primer that goes two‑thirds of the way. [REVIEW]Marc Champagne - 2021 - Metascience 30 (1):153–156.
  41. Problems with the cosmological constant problem.Adam Koberinski - 2021 - In Christian Wüthrich, Baptiste Le Bihan & Nick Huggett (eds.), Philosophy Beyond Spacetime. Oxford University Press.
    The cosmological constant problem is widely viewed as an important barrier and hint to merging quantum field theory and general relativity. It is a barrier insofar as it remains unsolved, and a solution may hint at a fuller theory of quantum gravity. I critically examine the arguments used to pose the cosmological constant problem, and find many of the steps poorly justified. In particular, there is little reason to accept an absolute zero point energy scale in quantum field theory, and (...)
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  42. La question cosmologique: Platon, Lemaître et l'origine de l'Univers.Lendja Ngnemzué & Ange Bergson - 2021 - Paris: L'Harmattan.
    Le démiurge de Platon et l'atome primitif de Lemaître sont deux intuitions inédites, artifices théoriques d'astronomie anti-observationnelle. La genèse de ces artifices remonte à la thématisation présocratique de l'unité cosmique. Platon institutionnalise les Formes intelligibles et platonise les présocratiques. Lemaître, contemporain d'Einstein, est tributaire d'une unité cosmique marquée par la gravitation relativiste, qui disqualifie le système classique ayant, en son temps, déclassé les substances et le mouvement aristotéliciens. La théorisation montre comment Platon fait du démiurge le concept axial de son (...)
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  43. Top-Down Causation Without Levels.Jan Voosholz - 2021 - In Jan Voosholz & Markus Gabriel (eds.), Top-Down Causation and Emergence. Cham: Springer Verlag. pp. 269-296.
    The paper addresses a question concerning George Ellis’s theory of top-down causation by considering a challenge to the “level-picture of nature” which he employs as a foundational element in his theory. According to the level-picture, nature is ordered by distinct and finitely many levels, each characterised by its own types of entities, relations, laws and principles of behavior, and causal relations to their respective neighbouring top- and bottom-level. The branching hierarchy that results from this picture enables Ellis to build his (...)
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  44. O Ponto Ómega de Teilhard de Chardin. Do Contraponto com o Átomo Primitivo de Georges Lemaître à Projeção em Teorias Cosmológicas (Teilhard de Chardin’s Omega Point. From the Counterpoint with the Primitive Atom by Georges Lemaître to Projection in Cosmological Theories).João Barbosa - 2020 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76 (4):1743-1760.
    This article focuses on the Omega Point, an essential concept in Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary metaphysics. In certain passages about the Omega Point, Teilhard mentions the primeval atom hypothesis, a theory about the beginning of the universe proposed by Georges Lemaître, another contemporary Jesuit priest who was also a scientist. Although Teilhard and Lemaître are essentially evolutionists, besides being Jesuit priests, their evolutionary metaphysics and their philosophies of science are radically divergent, and two important differences are presented here – about (...)
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  45. Why Boltzmann Brains Are Bad.Sean M. Carroll - 2020 - In Shamik Dasgupta, Brad Weslake & Ravit Dotan (eds.), Current Controversies in Philosophy of Science. Routledge. pp. 7-20.
    Some modern cosmological models predict the appearance of Boltzmann Brains: observers who randomly fluctuate out of a thermal bath rather than naturally evolving from a low-entropy Big Bang. A theory in which most observers are of the Boltzmann Brain type is generally thought to be unacceptable, although opinions differ. I argue that such theories are indeed unacceptable: the real problem is with fluctuations into observers who are locally identical to ordinary observers, and their existence cannot be swept under the rug (...)
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  46. Ptolemy’s Philosophy: Mathematics as a Way of Life. By Jacqueline Feke. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 234. [REVIEW]Nicholas Danne - 2020 - Metaphilosophy 51 (1):151-155.
  47. Observations, Simulations, and Reasoning in Astrophysics.Melissa Jacquart - 2020 - Philosophy of Science 87 (5):1209-1220.
    Astrophysics faces methodological challenges as a result of being a predominantly observation-based science without access to traditional experiments. In light of these challenges, astrophysicists frequently rely on computer simulations. Using collisional ring galaxies as a case study, I argue that computer simulations play three roles in reasoning in astrophysics: (1) hypothesis testing, (2) exploring possibility space, and (3) amplifying observations.
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  48. Philosophical dogmatism inhibiting the anti-Copernican interpretation of the Michelson Morley experiment.Spyridon Kakos - 2020 - Harmonia Philosophica 1.
    From the beginning of time, humans believed they were the center of the universe. Such important beings could be nowhere else than at the very epicenter of existence, with all the other things revolving around them. Was this an arrogant position? Only time will tell. What is certain is that as some people were so certain of their significance, aeons later some other people became too confident in their unimportance. In such a context, the Earth quickly lost its privileged position (...)
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  49. Stability in Cosmology, from Einstein to Inflation.C. D. McCoy - 2020 - In Claus Beisbart, Tilman Sauer & Christian Wüthrich (eds.), Thinking About Space and Time. Cham: Birkhäuser. pp. 71-89.
    I investigate the role of stability in cosmology through two episodes from the recent history of cosmology: Einstein’s static universe and Eddington’s demonstration of its instability, and the flatness problem of the hot big bang model and its claimed solution by inflationary theory. These episodes illustrate differing reactions to instability in cosmological models, both positive ones and negative ones. To provide some context to these reactions, I also situate them in relation to perspectives on stability from dynamical systems theory and (...)
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  50. A Theory of Evolution as a Process of Unfolding.Agustin Ostachuk - 2020 - Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy 16 (1):347-379.
    In this work I propose a theory of evolution as a process of unfolding. This theory is based on four logically concatenated principles. The principle of evolutionary order establishes that the more complex cannot be generated from the simpler. The principle of origin establishes that there must be a maximum complexity that originates the others by logical deduction. Finally, the principle of unfolding and the principle of actualization guarantee the development of the evolutionary process from the simplest to the most (...)
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