PhilPapers: Recent additions to PhilArchive

A review of Michael Nikoletseas's work in Philosophy, Natural Science and Mathematics.

On Feeling: The Resonant Field of Time is a lyric-philosophical essay in the ongoing On —ing series. Writing from the first person and then deliberately stepping back from it, the essay treats feeling not as private sentiment but as a mode of perception — a way of registering what the author calls the resonant field of time, the felt pattern that binds human lives into a "greater flow." It moves …

In Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence: The State of the Art. Berlin: SpringerNature. pp. 123-138. 2026The Digital Revolution has given rise to a new era of perceptual experiences, marked by the convergence of analogue and digital dimensions into what is collectively known as Mixed Reality (MR). This paper explores the complexities of perception within digital environments, addressing fundament…

_Journal of the Philosophy of Sport_ 53 (2):401-405. 2026The relationship between martial arts and sports is often characterized as one of love or hate. On the love side, some martial arts (e.g. judo, taekwondo, wrestling, boxing) are practiced at the Ol... ( direct link )

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper fixes why within Kasei-Theory as a non-modal fixation in which reason-demand is not established as reason. This paper does not answer why. It does not provide reason, ground, cause, origin, explanation, justification, sufficient reason, first cause, foundation, answer, or regress. It does not stop regress by giving a final reason. Why is fixed only as a structural positio…

_Philosophia_ 53 (2). 2025In recent work, Alex Gregory defends the unorthodox view that desires are beliefs about reasons for action. While Gregory offers compelling arguments in its defense, this paper critically examines how his desire-as-belief view can explain the phenomenon of recalcitrant desires. Taking inspiration from a debate about the cognitive status of emotions, I define recalcitrant…

Abstract This book offers an interdisciplinary reexamination of Homer's Iliad, using a multilevel conceptual schema that bridges literature, psychoanalysis, anthropology, and natural science (pp. 5, 10). Moving past traditional historical, philological, or purely social interpretations, the author treats the text as a poetic exploration of the male soul and a manifestation of universal, diachroni…

AI safety, risk, and governance are becoming global agenda items, but the intensification of governance activity does not automatically clarify the object of risk. When different fields say that they seek to protect “humanity,” they implicitly point to preferences, lives, social order, or species continuity—concepts that are not mutually compatible. As a result, risk identification continually sl…

_Citation Modeling Review_. 2023Citation-grounded modeling links a prediction, retrieval result, or review-support signal to the documentary evidence that made it possible. In legal analytics, citation and phrase histories help represent precedent, judicial alignment, and panel behavior. In peer-review support, citation-grounded phrase profiles and structured review evidence help estimate agreeme…

_Synthese_. forthcomingSituated language and cognition arguably can concern aspects of their environs without mentally representing them. Recently, I have argued that cognition and language can also concern remote situations, as well as general states of affairs, without mental representation. I have illustrated this with thought experiments involving a hypothetical people called the Sundial trib…

This book provides a foundational, epistemologically driven introduction to behavioral learning and neural plasticity, reframing psychological phenomena strictly within the framework and philosophy of natural science (pp. 5, 8, 10). Moving away from traditional, uncritical compilations of experimental literature, the text casts the mechanisms of learning as deep biological and philosophical quest…

Abstract This book presents an intuitive, conceptually-driven introduction to statistical analysis, purposefully designed to bypass intimidating, redundant mathematical formulas (pp. 6, 9). Developed from the author’s extensive experience teaching senior-level experimental neuroscience, the text strips away technical ornamentation to focus strictly on the core logic and historical evolution of st…

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper fixes Fuka within the fourth system of Kasei-Theory as a non-modal fixation of non-established fixation-form. Fuka is not absence, negation, failure, limitation, contradiction, exteriority, or origin. Fuka does not designate what is missing, what is denied, what fails to appear, what lies outside readable configuration, or what remains beyond access. Fuka is fixed only wh…

_Https://Doi.Org/10.5281/Zenodo.20727100_. 2026This illustrated philosophical report presents a speculative continuity history of Homo sapiens across a constructed 500,000-year execution envelope: approximately 300,000 years of known human history followed by a 200,000-year future-planning horizon. The present is positioned at the 60% coordinate within this working model. This coordinate is not p…

_Enterprise Forecasting Survey_. 2025Enterprise knowledge systems, legal profile models, and review-forecasting tools all depend on evidence that is relevant, scoped, chronological, and auditable. Dense retrieval and large document encoders improve semantic recall, but governance-sensitive workflows also require entity boundaries, access controls, temporal validity, citation provenance, and calib…

_Zenodo_. 2026This paper fixes Ka-trace within the third system of Kasei-Theory as a non-modal decompositional fixation without readout. Ka-trace is not introduced as readout, Ka-readout, readable residue, preserved trace, memory, record, evidence, origin, generation, negative substance, disconnection, rupture, impossibility, negation, Fuka-contact generation, dec-phase completion, access, or tra…

_The Anthropocene Review_. 2026This paper aims to explore an astrobiological genealogy of the concept of the Planetary vividly discussed in contemporary environmental humanities and social sciences, and to offer a framework for an articulation of political-economic models based on this concept. Following Bentley Allan, we propose to treat the Planetary as an example of scientific cosmology, thus …

This paper takes inspiration from the Silk Road crossroads of Dunhuang and proposes an “opportunistic trade”of concepts between distant intellectual traditions, in particular Mahāyāna Buddhism and contemporary dark matter cosmology. Dark matter presents philosophy of science with a tension: it is fundamental to the standard model of cosmology, yet directly unobservable, known only through its gra…

_The Theory of Femisculine: Ontological Synthesis of Cognitive Dimensions Within Non-Necessitated Consciousness_. 2026Abstract This paper formally introduces 'Femisculine' as a novel ontological and philosophical construct defining a state of balanced cognitive synthesis. Breaking away from traditional binary constraints, the theory of Femisculine posits that the core of Consciousness ($C$) opera…

_Smart Infrastructure Optimization Review_. 2025Smart infrastructure platforms increasingly join phasor measurement streams, city-scale sensors, cloud data pipelines, cross-cloud machine-learning workloads, hybrid evidence retrieval, long-horizon forecasting, API gateway governance, semi-supervised confidence gates, and GPU-accelerated optimization. The resulting systems must make fast operationa…