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  1. Du Châtelet on External-To and the Idea of Extension.Qiu Lin - 2025 - In Clara Carus & Jeffrey McDonough, Émilie Du Châtelet in Relation to Leibniz and Wolff: Similarities and Differences. Springer. pp. 49–65.
    In Du Châtelet’s magnum opus, Foundations of Physics (Du Châtelet, É. (1740). Institutions de Physique. Paris. Translated by Brading et al. (2018). http:// kbrading. org/translations and 1742), she dedicates an entire chapter to theorizing how we come to form our spatial ideas. The first idea she investigates is the idea of extension, exploring how we first arrive at it. According to her, this idea necessarily arises when we “represent to ourselves several different things as being one” through the imagination (§77). (...)
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  2. Resonant Epochs_ Testing Earth–Moon Phase Coupling at the Eocene–Oligocene Boundary.Devin Bostick - manuscript
    This paper proposes a falsifiable, systems-level model of Earth–Moon phase coupling during the Eocene–Oligocene boundary (~33–29 MYA), reframing lunar volcanism and terrestrial extinction not as separate events, but as manifestations of structured resonance. Using the CODES (Chirality of Dynamic Emergent Systems) framework, we introduce the concept of Coherent Phase Resonance (CPR)—periodic intervals during which planetary systems enter phase-locked states, generating synchronized geophysical and biospheric reorganizations. We outline a four-domain coherence scoring protocol and propose an experiment using DIMPLE lunar samples and (...)
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  3. Locally Spherical GRT → Quantum Spin Dynamics, QSD, where Time is A Dynamic Relativistic Aether or the Singularity, Linking a Quantised GRT, Quantum, Loop Quantum Gravity & String Theory.John E. Blaszynski - 2025 - John E. Blaszynski.
    The emergence of General Relativity examined via a Dynamic Spin Metric, DSM, predicts that OUR 1-sphere Universe exists as de-Sitter space on the Manifold of the Super-singularity presenting as a Space-time singularity with an effective relativistic radius of Gyration...
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  4. The Structured Resonance Origin of Life_ A Unified Framework from Chemistry to Complexity.Devin Bostick - manuscript - Translated by Devin Bostick & Eunjun Jeong.
    Note: I keep a Stromatolite on my desk, focus on structured emergence in biological systems and wanted to discover its secrets! -/- The Eternal Pulse of Life: Integrating Energy, Metabolism, Information, and Structured Resonance -/- -/- Abstract -/- -/- The origin of life has long been framed as a singular event—a sudden transition from non-life to life. Traditional models attempt to pinpoint this moment through genetic-first (RNA World) or metabolism-first (Prebiotic Chemistry) approaches, but both rely on a stepwise sequence of (...)
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  5. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM ON FEUERBACH.John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. In 2020, accomplished Swedish theoretical physicist, Dr. Johan Hansson published a physics proof using Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity that our universe is superdeterministic meaning a predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics. The philosophy of superdeterminism rejects the main philosophical teachings of Ludwig Feuerbach, who argued that belief in a fictitious God (...)
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  6. (1 other version)Perspectivas modernas: Leibniz, Newton y Kant.Martin Fricke - 2012 - In Rosario Gómez, Arturo Taracena Arriola & Nicole Ooms, Diálogos sobre los espacios: imaginados, percibidos y construidos. Mérida: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.
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  7. Diálogos sobre los espacios: imaginados, percibidos y construidos.Rosario Gómez, Arturo Taracena Arriola & Nicole Ooms (eds.) - 2012 - Mérida: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro Peninsular en Humanidades y Ciencias Sociales.
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  8. THE PHILOSOPHY OF SUPERDETERMINISM ON OBJECTIONS TO SUPERDETERMINISM.John Bannan - manuscript
    The philosophy of superdeterminism is based on a single scientific fact about the universe, namely that cause and effect in physics are not real. In 2020, accomplished Swedish theoretical physicist, Dr. Johan Hansson published a physics proof using Albert Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity that our universe is superdeterministic meaning a predetermined static block universe without cause and effect in physics. There are various grounds for objecting to Dr. Hansson’s version of superdeterminism, but none hold any water. The most common (...)
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  9. Loops and the Geometry of Chance.Jens Jäger - forthcoming - Noûs.
    Suppose your evil sibling travels back in time, intending to lethally poison your grandfather during his infancy. Determined to save grandpa, you grab two antidotes and follow your sibling through the wormhole. Under normal circumstances, each antidote has a 50% chance of curing a poisoning. Upon finding young grandpa, poisoned, you administer the first antidote. Alas, it has no effect. The second antidote is your last hope. You administer it---and success: the paleness vanishes from grandpa's face, he is healed. As (...)
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  10. The Fabric of Time: Humanity's Journey Through Space, Time, and Consciousness.Robert Somazze - manuscript
    Time, perhaps humanity's most intimate yet enigmatic companion, reveals itself not as an absolute ruler but as a subtle dancer, moving differently for each observer. This paper weaves together insights from modern physics, neuroscience, and philosophy to explore how our understanding of time has evolved from Newton's rigid clockwork to Einstein's fluid spacetime, and beyond to the quantum realm where time itself becomes uncertain. Through examination of experimental evidence and philosophical inquiry, we discover that time's non-absolute nature extends from the (...)
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  11. Dasein und Raum.Walter Gölz - 1970 - Tübingen,: M. Niemeyer.
    Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Dasein und Raum" verfügbar.
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  12. Review of Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant, by Gordon Belot. [REVIEW]Franciszek Cudek & James Read - 2025 - Foundations of Physics 55 (18):1-20.
    We review Gordon Belot’s ‘Accelerating Expansion: Philosophy and Physics with a Positive Cosmological Constant’ (OUP, 2023).
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  13. Typical Quantum States of the Universe are Observationally Indistinguishable.Eddy Keming Chen & Roderich Tumulka - 2024
    This paper is about the epistemology of quantum theory. We establish a new result about a limitation to knowledge of its central object---the quantum state of the universe. We show that, if the universal quantum state can be assumed to be a typical unit vector from a high-dimensional subspace of Hilbert space (such as the subspace defined by a low-entropy macro-state as prescribed by the Past Hypothesis), then no observation can determine (or even just narrow down significantly) which vector it (...)
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  14. The feeling of space.Christopher Bardt - 2024 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    This richly illustrated book explores the drive to shape life as a spatial project--from Plato to the isolation of digital space--and is aimed at recovering the feeling of space as a sensory realm.
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  15. Dilatación del tiempo según la astrología tropical y por qué la medición Placidus de las regiones astrográficas es compatible con la teoría de la relatividad.David Bustamante - manuscript - Translated by David Bustamante.
    ● Mucho más relevante que la complejidad o simplicidad de un método de medir las casas es si dicha división se mantiene fiel a la física del cielo (i.e. si tiene sentido alguno). ● Dado que la astrología no goza de una institución central que decida qué es válido y qué no, consideramos que lo mínimo que pueden hacer los astrólogos es respetar las verdades confirmadas por la ciencia. La física enseña que no podemos separar el tiempo del espacio o (...)
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  16. (2 other versions)Space, time, and deity.Samuel Alexander - 1927 - London,: Macmillan & co..
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  17. (1 other version)Prostor a čas.Vojtěch Tlusté - 1960 - Praha: [Státní nakl. politické literatury].
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  18. (1 other version)Philosophical problems of space and time.Adolf Grünbaum - 1963 - New York,: Knopf.
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  19. (1 other version)Philosophische Untersuchungen zum Raum.Elisabeth Ströker - 1965 - Frankfurt am Main,: V. Klostermann.
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  20. Open Systems: Physics, Metaphysics, and Methodology (2025: Oxford University Press).Michael E. Cuffaro & Stephan Hartmann (eds.) - forthcoming - Oxford: Oxford University Press.
    This book consists in seventeen chapters devoted to physical, metaphysical, and methodological questions concerning open systems. The chapters in the volume address questions such as: Are (theories of) open systems more fundamental than (theories of) closed systems? How have concepts of open and closed systems have been used throughout the history of physics, and how should we understand their use in contemporary physical theories? Must the universe be a closed system? Must there be a such thing as the universe at (...)
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  21. Amʹdralyn mȯn chanaryn tukhaĭ ėrėgt︠s︡u̇u̇lėl.Khavtgaĭn Namsraĭ - 2019 - Ulaanbaatar: Bėmbi San.
    Lecture by physicist Khavtgaĭn Namsraĭ about nature of life, time, space and black holes.
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  22. Storia del concetto di spazio: dai Greci alla relatività generale.Aurelio Molaro - 2024 - Roma: Carocci editore.
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  23. Time and space in the internet age.Stephen Kern - 2024 - Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge.
    This book analyzes changes in ideas about and experiences of time and space from 1880 to 2020, relying on new technologies for causal explanations of changes in nine key elements of time and space. Time and Space in the Internet Age is a thought-provoking study for academics and general readers interested in the history of technology and science.
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  24. A geometry of sufficient reason: space and quantity in the works of Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze.Florian Vermeiren - 2025 - New York, NY: Routledge.
    This book explores and compares the reflections on space and quantity found in the works of five philosophers: Spinoza, Leibniz, Bergson, Whitehead, and Deleuze. What unites these philosophers is a series of metaphysical concerns rooted in 17th-century rationalism and embraced in 20th-century philosophies of process and difference. At the heart of these concerns is the need for a comprehensive metaphysical account of the diversity and individuality of things. This demand leads to a shared critique of Cartesian and Newtonian conceptions of (...)
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  25. A Dynamical Perspective on the Direction of Time.Kian Salimkhani - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
    It is standardly believed that the generally time-reversal symmetric fundamental laws of physics themselves cannot explain the apparent asymmetry of time. In particular, it is believed that CP (charge conjugation parity symmetry) violation is of no help. In this article, I want to push back against a quick dismissal of CP violation as a potential source for the arrow of time and argue that it should be taken more seriously for conceptualizing time in physics. After briefly reviewing the general debate (...)
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  26. What is time? A glimpse of its Beginning during the Eclipse!John E. Blaszynski - forthcoming - Galilean Electrodynamics.
    Within we prove Time is the potential of omnipotence. It also demonstrates that when we try to control it from a philosophical point of view it obscures us from Serendipity and access to the splendor of the perfect balance between Freewill and the Will of THE Universe as constrained by the Laws of the Universe. It creates Math or the language of the Creator. It is in fact Time that makes everything from nothing while the net sum of time remains (...)
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  27. Der raum.Rudolf Carnap - 1922 - [n.p.]: Reuther & Reichard.
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  28. Self-existing objects and auto-generated information in chronology-violating space-times: A philosophical discussion.Gustavo E. Romero & Diego F. Torres - 2001 - Modern Physics Letters A 16 (19):1213-1222.
    Closed time-like curves (CTCs) naturally appear in a variety of chronology-violating space{times. In these space{times, the principle of self-consistency demands a harmony between local and global a airs that excludes grandfather-like paradoxes. However, selfexisting objects trapped in CTCs are not seemingly avoided by the standard interpretation of this principle, usually constrained to a dynamical framework. In this letter we discuss whether we are committed to accept an ontology with self-existing objects if CTCs actually occur in the universe. In addition, the (...)
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  29. The philosophy of space & time.Hans Reichenbach - 1958 - New York,: Dover Publications.
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  30. Is discrete space not isotropic?Sydney Ernest Grimm - manuscript
    The use of the model of discrete/quantized space sets the focus on mathematics instead of physics. It benefits the interpretation of observed and measured phenomena at the cosmological scale size. It is an approach that simplifies the problems around the understanding of the properties of the basic quantum fields.
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  31. God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime. By EmilyQureshi‐Hurst. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Pp. 75. £17.00. [REVIEW]S. J. Sherel Jeevan Joseph Mendonsa - 2024 - Heythrop Journal 65 (3):328-330.
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  32. The Decoherent Arrow of Time and the Entanglement Past Hypothesis.Jim Al-Khalili & Eddy Keming Chen - 2024 - Foundations of Physics 54 (49).
    If an asymmetry in time does not arise from the fundamental dynamical laws of physics, it may be found in special boundary conditions. The argument normally goes that since thermodynamic entropy in the past is lower than in the future according to the Second Law of Thermodynamics, then tracing this back to the time around the Big Bang means the universe must have started off in a state of very low thermodynamic entropy: the Thermodynamic Past Hypothesis. In this paper, we (...)
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  33. Hermann Minkowski, Spacetime: Minkowski's Papers on Spacetime Physics (Minkowski Institute Press, Montreal 2020), 215 pages.Gregorie Dupuis (ed.) - 2020 - Montreal: Minkowski Institute Press.
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  34. (2 other versions)The Ontology of Spacetime I.Dennis Dieks (ed.) - 2006 - Amsterdam: Elsevier.
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  35. Emergent Spacetime, the Megastructure Problem, and the Metaphysics of the Self.Susan Schneider - 2024 - Philosophy East and West 74 (2):314-332.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Emergent Spacetime, the Megastructure Problem, and the Metaphysics of the SelfSusan Schneider (bio)The aim of this article is to introduce new thoughts on some pressing topics relating to my book, Artificial You, ranging from the fundamental nature of reality to quantum theory and emergence in large language models (LLM) like GPT-4. Since Artificial You was published, the innovations in the domain of AI chatbots like GPT-4 have been rapid-fire, (...)
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  36. Identifying and quantifying landscape patterns in space and time.Janine Bolliger, Helene H. Wagner & Monica G. Turner - 2007 - In Felix Kienast, Otto Wildi & S. Ghosh, A changing world: challenges for landscape research. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
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  37. On Time, Causality, and the Block Universe.Anthony C. Proctor - 2022 - London: Clink Street Publishing.
    A serious examination of the viability of a static block universe, and an exploration of its repercussions in the fields of consciousness, causality, free will, cosmology, and quantum mechanics.
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  38. Categorical analysis of the museum phenomenon: Space and time.Ekaterina Alekseevna Antipova - 2024 - Известия Саратовского Университета: Новая Серия. Серия Философия. Психология. Педагогика 24 (1):4-9.
    Introduction. The museum provides society with the opportunity for special interaction with space and time for the purposes of acquiring knowledge and the most complete assimilation of codes existing in culture and society. Theoretical analysis. Society’s perception of space and time in the museum will be examined and analyzed from the perspective of myth, which makes it possible to identify archetypal ideas of humanity that developed in ancient times and have largely not lost their infl uence on modern culture and (...)
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  39. The cognitive life of maps.Roberto Casati - 2024 - Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
    An examination of the "mapness of maps" authored by a philosopher and cognitive scientist well known for his work on spatial representation.
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  40. The Theory of Everything consistent with the PF interpretation of quantum mechanics.P. Merriam & M. A. Z. Habeeb - manuscript
    This paper give the first foray into the development of a Theory of Everything that is consistent with the PF interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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  41. Some views of the time problem..Benjamin Whitman Van Riper - 1916 - Menasha, Wis.,: George Banta Publishing Company.
    Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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  42. 'Time' and 'history' in contemporary philosophy.Herbert Wildon Carr - 1918 - London,: Pub. for the British academy by H. Milford, Oxford university press.
    A consideration of the unity of a class or kind as including its member or instances.
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  43. Hasdai Crescas, Gianfrancesco Pico, Giordano Bruno: On Infinite Space and Time.Miguel Ángel Granada - 2024 - Anales Del Seminario de Historia de la Filosofía 41 (1):195-212.
    Este artículo examina la concepción del espacio infinito y del tiempo en Hasdai Crescas, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola y Giordano Bruno. Si la presencia de Crescas es explícita en el _Examen vanitatis_ (1520) de Pico, su recepción por Bruno, que nunca lo menciona, fue postulada por Harry A. Wolfson en 1929. Más recientemente, David Harari y Mauro Zonta han afirmado el papel intermediario de un autor judío desconocido. Sin embargo, una comparación de la crítica de Aristóteles efectuada por Crescas y (...)
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  44. Black Hole Paradoxes: A Unified Framework for Information Loss.Saakshi Dulani - 2024 - Dissertation, University of Geneva
    The black hole information loss paradox is a catch-all term for a family of puzzles related to black hole evaporation. For almost 50 years, the quest to elucidate the implications of black hole evaporation has not only sustained momentum, but has also become increasingly populated with proposals that seem to generate more questions than they purport to answer. Scholars often neglect to acknowledge ongoing discussions within black hole thermodynamics and statistical mechanics when analyzing the paradox, including the interpretation of Bekenstein-Hawking (...)
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  45. The impact of early aging on visual perception of space and time.Sara Incao - 2022 - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 16.
    Visual perception of space and time has been shown to rely on context dependency, an inferential process by which the average magnitude of a series of stimuli previously experienced acts as a prior during perception. This article aims to investigate the presence and evolution of this phenomenon in early aging. Two groups of participants belonging to two different age ranges (Young Adults: average age 28.8 years old; Older Adults: average age 62.8 years old) participated in the study performing a discrimination (...)
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  46. Eternity Between Space and Time: From Consciousness to the Cosmos.Ines Testoni, Fabio Scardigli, Andrea Toniolo & Gabriele Gionti S. J. (eds.) - 2024 - De Gruyter.
    Philosophers, theologians, physicists, and psychologists join their efforts to reflect on the crucial issues of limit and infinity, time and eternity, empty space and material space. The volume offers an invaluable contribution to some of the most important issues of our times: questions on God and consciousness are discussed in parallel with quantum theory, black holes, the inflationary universe, the Big Bang, and string theory, from different perspectives and angles, ranging from neuroscience to AI.
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  47. Symmetries and Representation.Sebastián Murgueitio Ramírez & Geoffrey Hall - forthcoming - Philosophy Compass.
    It is often said in physics that if two models of a theory are related by a symmetry, then the two models provide (or could provide) two different representations of the very same situation, alike the case of two maps of different color for the very same city. It is also said that the situations represented by two models of a theory are indiscernible in some ways when the models in question are related by a symmetry of the theory, just (...)
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  48. The Nature and Structure of Space.Gregory Fowler - 2009 - Dissertation, University of Rochester
    In my dissertation, I address a variety of issues in the metaphysics of space and related areas. I begin by discussing the popular thesis that regions of space are identical to sets of points in space. I present three arguments against this thesis and conclude that we should be skeptical of it. In its place, I propose an axiomatic theory of regions of space that is consistent with both reductive accounts of their nature and with accounts that treat them as (...)
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  49. Spacetime functionalists should be inferentialists.Tushar Menon - forthcoming - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.
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  50. Strange Dichotomy: Space and Time in Actor-Network Theory.S. S. Astakhov - 2017 - Sociology of Power 29 (1):59-87.
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