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Baptiste Le Bihan

@baptistelebihan.bsky.social
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Philosophy of science, metaphysics (PhD, habilitation). Space, time and quantum gravity. Assistant Professor. Swiss NSF Starting Grant: SpaceQG.com baptistelebihan.org

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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Je serai au Musée d'ethnographie de Genève le jeudi 8 octobre pour parler du temps avec Damien Kunick, conservateur Asie au MEG et co-commissaire de l’exposition « Le futur, c’est quoi ? ». www.meg.ch/fr/openagend...
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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New on the Archive: Le Bihan, Baptiste and Margoni, Emilia (2026) What Becomes of Kinematics and Dynamics When Spacetime Goes Missing? [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/31061
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
postdocs at LMU with Alissa Ney
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Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/x)
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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
New on the Archive: Le Bihan, Baptiste (2023) String Theory for Metaphysicians. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/29853
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NIYX @niyx.fr · 27/07/2026
Et si l’espace et le temps n’existaient pas fondamentalement ? Baptiste Le Bihan explore sur NIYX une hypothèse vertigineuse de la gravité quantique, entre physique et philosophie. Une question qui bouleverse notre vision du réel. Lecture partielle sans inscription : niyx.fr/content/7500...
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PhilSci-Archive @philsci-archive.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
New on the Archive: Le Bihan, Baptiste (2026) The Block Universes of Quantum Gravity: Eternalism and Fragmentalism Beyond Spacetime. [Preprint] philsci-archive.pitt.edu/30783
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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 15/06/2026
A philosopher wins a substantial prize for her work building “a bridge between philosophy and the actual practice of science.”
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Cartwright Wins Frontiers of Knowledge Award - Daily Nous
Nancy Cartwright, professor of philosophy at Durham University and the University of California, San Diego, has been selected as the recipient of the 2026 Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in th...
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Jean Abbiateci @jeanabbiateci.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Petit fil. Je vois passer des chiffres erronés sur le volume de plagiat dans la thèse de Mr Klein. Quelques précisions. 1/ Dans notre enquête de 2024 sur ASI - qui n'a pas été faite avec un logiciel anti-plagiat type Compilatio - on montrait que 20% des pages contenaient du plagiat.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
New piece: Relativistic physics suggests that we live in a four-dimensional spacetime, all of whose parts are equally real, while quantum gravity suggests that this very spacetime might be emergent. How should we then understand the metaphysics of physical existence? philpapers.org/rec/LEBTBU
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Baptiste Le Bihan, The Block Universes of Quantum Gravity: Eternalism and Fragmentalism Beyond Spacetime - PhilPapers
Relativity supports a block-universe view on which past, present and future entities coexist within spacetime. Quantum gravity complicates this picture by suggesting that spacetime may be emergent. I ...
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Je viens de finir Les Jardins Statuaires de Jacques Abeille. Incroyable lecture.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Next MBS event in a month. I have been organising this event for five years to help build a new field of research: the metaphysics of quantum gravity. It aims to work out the metaphysical foundations and implications of different attempts to unify general relativity and quantum physics.
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Samuel Lepine @samlepine.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
La Variété des émotions sort dans cinq jours ! 🥳🎉🔥 Que des contributrices et contributeurs exceptionnels Toutes les infos ici : eliotteditions.fr/73-la-variet...
Couverture du livre La variété des émotions, trois visages en gros plan de Bosch
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Florian Cova @floriancova.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Dans le cadre de la rédaction d'un ouvrage sur le thème des connards, je fais passer un petit questionnaire sur votre conception des connards et les types de connards que vous avez pu croiser dans votre vie. N'hésitez à le remplir et le partager : fpse.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management
Etude sur les c*nnards
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Qu’est-ce que le Hameau ? Et qui est vraiment Tom qui vient d'y emménager ? J’ai pris un immense plaisir à écrire mon premier roman autour de ce mystère, qui glisse progressivement vers une intrigue métaphysique.
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Samuel Lepine @samlepine.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Attendez mais ce livre a l'air complètement fou ! 💫🎉🔥🥳 Et on me dit qu'il sort tout bientôt ?!
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
I think this is empirically true. In part because "critical thinking" has led to "distrust the experts," which is not the right message. It just allows people to trust kooky non-experts and validate their own biases, then pat themselves on the back for their advanced critical faculties.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Spacetime Emergence: Revolution or Footnote? Recording of our talk with Enrico Cinti at the Inaugural Workshop on Emergent Geometries held at Nordita, Stockholm, 17–21 November. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9cg...
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EmerGe Workshop — Enrico Ciniti and Baptiste Le Bihan "Spacetime Emergence: Revolution or Footnote?"
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’m very happy to be joining the European Journal for the Philosophy of Science as an Associate Editor. :) link.springer.com/journal/1319...
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European Journal for Philosophy of Science
The European Journal of Philosophy of Science publishes groundbreaking works that can deepen understanding of the concepts and methods of the sciences, as ...
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.vrin.fr/livre/978271... 110 exemplaires vendus cette année. Merci aux quelques amoureux de la métaphysique du temps.
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Qu'est-ce que le temps? | Collection Chemins Philosophiques
Découvrez l'ouvrage Qu'est-ce que le temps? | Collection Chemins Philosophiques
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Je présenterai demain à 10 h en ligne quelques analyses sur comment articuler les grandes catégories métaphysiques de la causalité et des lois de la nature, si l'espace et le temps émergent d'une structure non-spatiotemporelle, comme suggéré par certaines approches de la gravité quantique.
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Eugene Y. S. Chua @eugenechua.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
There's about a month left to submit something to the Asian Philosophy of Science Association's inaugural conference! Consider submitting an abstract, and encouraging early-career scholars (especially those from or based in Asia) to submit an essay for the APSA Essay Prize.
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Asian Philosophy of Science Association (APSA) Conference 2026
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Deadline tomorrow.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Deadline in a few days: Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship spaceqg.com/visit-us/
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Working with Us
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship The University of Geneva offers a 2-year fully funded postdoctoral fellowship within Baptiste Le Bihan’s SNSF Starting Grant project Space, Time and C…
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Deadline for applying to a postdoc position on my projet in less than a month. Looking for candidates with a PhD in metaphysics or philosophy of physics. spaceqg.com/visit-us/
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Working with Us
Call for Applications: Postdoctoral Fellowship The University of Geneva offers a 2-year fully funded postdoctoral fellowship within Baptiste Le Bihan’s SNSF Starting Grant project Space, Time and C…
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm hiring, please share widely! genevasymmetrygroup.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/2...
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Homepage - Département de Philosophie - UNIGE
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
I'm hiring, please share widely! genevasymmetrygroup.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/2...
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Homepage - Département de Philosophie - UNIGE
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British Journal for the Philosophy of Science @thebjps.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
New letter to the Editors Caspar Jacobs, Against Presentist Velocities: Response to Gijsbers www.thebsps.org/letters/gijs... #philsci #philsky
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On Gijsbers, Presentist Velocities | Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Caspar Jacobs
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
New paper out on the multiverse. I argue we should distinguish two kinds of multiverse, and show that one of them can, in principle, be tested empirically. Comments welcome! philpapers.org/rec/LEBHVF
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Baptiste Le Bihan, Holistic Versus Fragmented Multiverses: Empirical Access via Causal and Grounding Signatures - PhilPapers
Can multiverse hypotheses ever receive empirical support? Critics argue that multiverse scenarios posit unobservable entities, face severe underdetermination, or fall outside the bounds of science. Th...
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Sean Carroll @seanmcarroll.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Postdoc job! I expect to have an opening at Johns Hopkins for a postdoctoral researcher working somewhere in the broad realms of physics, philosophy, and complexity. Apply at Academic Jobs Online: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30496
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Johns Hopkins University, Physics and Astronomy
Job #AJO30496, Postdoctoral Fellow in Foundations of Physics, Complexity, and Emergence, Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, US
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Closing a paper at the intersection of philosophy of physics and metaphysics: what does it take for multiverse scenarios to be empirically accessible?
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
CFP: Philosophy and Metaphysics of String Theory, Dec 9-10, Geneva philevents.org/event/show/1...
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Philosophy and Metaphysics of String Theory
This two-day workshop brings together philosophers and physicists to explore metaphysical and philosophical questions in string theory, broadly understood, i.e. including non-perturbative approac...
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Latest piece with @kenwharton.bsky.social ABSTRACT: In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts of this kind. …1/ #philsky #philsci #quantum
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Taming Entanglement
In statistics and causal modeling it is common for a selection process to induce correlations in a subset of an uncorrelated ensemble. We propose that EPR and Bell correlations are selection artefacts...
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
philpapers.org/rec/BARCST-8 New paper with Sam Baron forthcoming: this time on causal set theory and the metaphysics of causation!
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Sam Baron & Baptiste Le Bihan, Causal Set Theory is (Strongly) Causal - PhilPapers
Causal Set Theory (CST) is a promising approach to fundamental physics that seems to treat causation as a basic posit. But in exactly what sense is CST causal? We argue that ...
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Alessandro Torza @atorza.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
CFA: 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics December 15-16, 2025 University of Parma (Italy) Invited Speakers: Claudio Calosi (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) Catharine Diehl (Leiden University) Carl Hoefer (University of Barcelona) Submission guidelines 👇
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2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics
Call for Abstracts 2nd Parma Workshop in Analytic and Scientific Metaphysics Dates: December 15-16, 2025 Venue: University of Parma (Italy) All scholars are invited to submit an abstract for presentat...
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Only a few slots left, get in touch if you are interested.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Only a few slots left, get in touch if you are interested.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The next Society for the Metaphysics of Science conference will take place in Lugano, Switzerland, June 30 – July 2: socmetsci.org/2025 As program chair, I’m currently looking for commentators for the papers, as well as session chairs. Please contact me if you are a scholar and would be interested.
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SMS 2025 Conference - Lugano, Switzerland — SMS
The 2025 Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science will be held at USI in Lugano, Switzerland, 30 June through 2 July.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
The next Society for the Metaphysics of Science conference will take place in Lugano, Switzerland, June 30 – July 2: socmetsci.org/2025 As program chair, I’m currently looking for commentators for the papers, as well as session chairs. Please contact me if you are a scholar and would be interested.
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SMS 2025 Conference - Lugano, Switzerland — SMS
The 2025 Conference of the Society for the Metaphysics of Science will be held at USI in Lugano, Switzerland, 30 June through 2 July.
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Physics teaches us that empty space is not really empty. It contains matter, energy, and even the keys to the fate of the universe. To the point where it challenges the notion of ‘nothing’. (Interviewed by Daniel Saraga for Horizons.) www.horizons-mag.ch/2025/03/06/n...
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Not so empty
Horizons - Much ado from nothing
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David Chalmers @davidchalmers.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
we're advertising 2-3 postdoctoral positions to work at NYU on artificial consciousness and related topics at the intersection of AI and the philosophy of mind (possibly including AI mentality, AI interpretability, and AI welfare). deadline is march 30! philjobs.org/job/show/28878
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Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University - PhilJobs:JFP Post-Doctoral Associate/Research Scientist, New York University
An international database of jobs for philosophers
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Huw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Latest version of my work on entanglement with @kenwharton.bsky.social. We propose that entanglement is a kind of selection artefact. This was a talk at @griffith.edu.au, and the slides are accessible here: bit.ly/4h9dMeo #philsky #PhilSci #quantum #entanglement
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A Mechanism for Entanglement?
YouTube video by The Quietist
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Franz Berto @franzberto.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Philosophers: spread the word, apply, come to St Andrews, have research fun with us! philjobs.org/job/show/28814
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Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews - PhilJobs:JFP Research Fellow, University of St. Andrews
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Baptiste Le Bihan @baptistelebihan.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scientific Theory and Possibility - Erkenntnis
It is plausible that the models of scientific theories correspond to possibilities. But how do we know which models of which scientific theories so correspond? This paper provides a novel proposal for...
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Eric Schwitzgebel @eschwitz.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
If consciousness is a nonphysical property, maybe there are other nonphysical properties even better than consciousness, which we sadly lack? schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2025/02/zomb...
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Zombie is to Human as Human is to XXX?
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Tomorrow! Livestream: pitt.zoom.us/j/93433720100
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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
15 EPSA Fellowships for junior philosophers working in Central & Eastern Europe to visit a leading research institution in Western Europe. In addition, Senior & Mid-Career scholars adversely affected by War in Ukraine are welcome to apply Deadline: 31 March 2025 #philsci philsci.eu/fellowships/...
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European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA) - Applications
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Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This week end at the Center for philosophy of science.
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jb manchak @manchak.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
"The universe is unknowable even if one were given an all-access pass to every possible observation at every possible place and time -- here, there, past, present, and future." #physics #philsky #philsci iai.tv/articles/the...
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The universe is unknowable from within it | JB Manchak
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Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS) @jgps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Are you interested in the metaphysics of time? In a recent article, Baptiste Le Bihan argues that 'aeon monism' fits Penrose's 'conformal cyclic cosmology'—the cosmos as a collection of successive universes or 'aeons'—and explores its implications: link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philsci #philsky
Picture with the abstract of the article “The Great Loop: From Conformal Cyclic Cosmology to Aeon Monism” by Baptiste Le Bihan, published in the Journal for General Philosophy of Science (JGPS).
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