Yuri Balashov

New Research Project

• Human and Machine Translation: Cognitive, Linguistic, and Philosophical Perspectives

Books

Articles

• Commentary: Physical Time Within Human Time
• The Boundaries of Meaning: A Case Study in Neural Machine Translation
• The Translator’s Extended Mind
• Common Sense and Relativistic Supercoincidence
• The Common Present in a Block Universe
• Time, Fission, Fusion
• Experiencing the Present
• On the Invariance and Intrinsicality of Four-Dimensional Shapes in Special Relativity
• Relativistic Parts and Places: A Note on Corner Slices and Shrinking Chairs
• Do Composite Objects Have an Age in Relativistic Spacetime?
• Pegs, Boards, and Relativistic Perdurance
• A Cognizable Universe: Transcendental Arguments in Physical Cosmology
• Persistence and Multilocation in Spacetime
• About Stage Universalism
• Times of Our Lives: Negotiating the Presence of Experience
• On Vagueness, 4D and Diachronic Universalism
• Special Relativity, Coexistence and Temporal Parts: A Reply to Gilmore
• Restricted Diachronic Composition, Immanent Causality, and Objecthood: A Reply to Hudson
• Temporal Parts and Superluminal Motion
• Presentism and Relativity: A Critical Notice (with Michel Janssen)
• Laws of Physics and the Universe
• What is a Law of Nature? The Broken-Symmetry Story
• Persistence and Space-Time: Philosophical Lessons of the Pole and Barn
• Enduring and Perduring Objects in Minkowski Space-Time
• Relativistic Objects
• Zero-Value Physical Quantities
• Uniformitarianism in Cosmology: Background and Philosophical Implications of the Steady-State Theory
• Should Plato's Line Be Divided in the Mean and Extreme Ratio?
• Duhem, Quine, and the Multiplicity of Scientific Tests

Co-edited Books

Reviews

• Automatic Translation Evaluation Tools for Freelancers
• MultiTraiNMT: Neural Machine Translation for Everyone (Resource Review)
• OPUS-CAT: A State-of-the-Art Neural Machine Translation Engine on Your Local Computer (Resource Review)
• C. Callender, What Makes Time Special?
• C. Bourne, A Future for Presentism
• Helge Kragh, Cosmology and Controversy
• Norriss Hetherington, ed., The Encyclopedia of Cosmology
• Renat Nugayev, Reconstruction of Scientific Theory Change
• Willem Drees, Beyond the Big Bang: Quantum Cosmologies and God
• John Leslie, Universes and Physical Cosmology and Philosophy (in Russian)

Encyclopedia Articles, etc.

• Fedor Bredikhin, Platon Poretsky, Stepan Rumovsky, and Vsevolod Sharonov, in Thomas Hockey et al., eds, Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers, Berlin etc.: Springer, 2007
• Laws of Nature and Symmetry, in J. van Huyssteen, ed., Encyclopedia of Science and Religion, New York: Macmillan, 2003
• Resource Letter AP-1: The Anthropic Principle, American Journal of Physics 15 (1990): 19-28

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Current Teaching

• Not teaching in Spring 2025