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The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis
Guillaume Rollin, Jos\'e Lages
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06034 https://

The most influential philosophers in Wikipedia: a multicultural analysis
We explore the influence and interconnectivity of philosophical thinkers within the Wikipedia knowledge network. Using a dataset of 237 articles dedicated to philosophers across nine different language editions (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish), we apply the PageRank and CheiRank algorithms to analyze their relative ranking and influence in each linguistic context. Furthermore, we compare our results with entries from the Stanford Encyclopedi…

"Nietzsche Discovers AI Art", I hope this becomes a regular segment with a rotating cast of philosophers 😅
https://existentialcomics.com/comic/605

What an exciting WWDC25! Liquid Glass. Foundation Models. iPad windows.
After WWDC, we like to take a moment. To quote one of the great philosophers of the '80s, Ferris Bueller, "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."
Today, we share our post-WWDC roadmap update for @…

Holographic Strange Metals for Philosophers and Physicists
Enrico Cinti, Sebastian De Haro, Mark Golden, Umut G\"ursoy, Henk T. C. Stoof
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23527 ht…

Holographic Strange Metals for Philosophers and Physicists
This paper introduces the physics and philosophy of strange metals, which are characterized by unusual electrical and thermal properties that deviate from conventional metallic behaviour. The anomalous strange-metal behaviour discussed here appears in the normal state of a copper-oxide high-temperature superconductor, and it cannot be described using standard condensed-matter physics. Currently, it can only be described through a holographic dual, viz.~a four-dimensional black hole in anti-de S…

Assessing the Ecological Impact of AI
Sylvia Wenmackers
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21102

Assessing the Ecological Impact of AI
Philosophers of technology have recently started paying more attention to the environmental impacts of AI, in particular of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI (genAI) applications. Meanwhile, few developers of AI give concrete estimates of the ecological impact of their models and products, and even when they do so, their analysis is often limited to green house gas emissions of certain stages of AI development or use. The current proposal encourages practically viable analyses of t…

The Prediction and Interpretation of Singularities and Black Holes: From Einstein and Schwarzschild to Penrose and Wheeler
Dennis Lehmkuhl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00034 https…

The Prediction and Interpretation of Singularities and Black Holes: From Einstein and Schwarzschild to Penrose and Wheeler
The Schwarzschild solution was the first exact solution to Einstein's 1915 field equations, found by Karl Schwarzschild as early as 1916. And yet, physicists, mathematicians and philosophers have struggled for decades with the interpretation of the Schwarzschild solution and the two singularities appearing in it when it is written in polar coordinates. This article distinguishes between eight different ways in which the two singularities have been interpreted between 1916 and the late 1960s, wh…

A Deterministic Model of Free Will
Tim Palmer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21553 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.21553

A Deterministic Model of Free Will
The issue of whether we make decisions freely has vexed philosophers for millennia, Resolving this is vital for solving a diverse range of problems, from the physiology of how the brain makes decisions (and how we assign moral responsibility to those decisions) to the interpretation of experiments on entangled quantum particles. A deterministic model of free will is developed, based on two concepts. The first generalises the notion of initialisation of nonlinear systems where information cascad…