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Beyond Global Studies. An Introductory Lecture into a Big History Course
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Global studies can be made not only with respect to the humans who inhabit the Earth, they can well be done with respect to biological and abiotic systems of our planet. Such an approach opens wide horizons for the modern university education as it helps to form a global view of various processes. However, we can also ask ourselves whether the limits of our studies can be moved further. Would not it be useful for the students to understand the evolution of our planet within the context of the evolution of our Universe? The need to see this process of development holistically, in its origins and growing complexity, is fundamental to what drives not only science but the human imagination. This shared vision of the grand narrative is one of the most effective ways to conceptualize and integrate our growing knowledge of the Universe, society, and human thought. Note that the respective discipline already exists and it has been developing quite successfully for more than three decades; it is denotes as Big History.
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Kuznetsov S., Pshenitsyn T., Speranski S. O., Journal of Symbolic Logic 2025 Article jsl.2025.16
The class of all ∗-continuous Kleene algebras, whose description includes an infinitary condition on the iteration operator, plays an important role in computer science. The complexity of reasoning in such algebras — ranging from the equational theory to the Horn one, with restricted fragments of the latter in between — was analyzed by Kozen (2002). This ...
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Speranski S. O., Математические заметки 2026 Т. 120 № 3 С. 470–483
We show that, in terms of closure ordinals, many infinitary calculi for ‘first-order’ logics of probability (i.e., for languages similar to those in [Abadi & Halpern 1994]) are as hard as possible: the corresponding closure ordinals coincide with the least non-constructive ordinal, denoted by $\omega_1^{\mathrm{CK}}$. ...
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Speranski S. O., Grefenshtein A., Izvestiya. Mathematics 2026 Vol. 90 No. 4 P. 754–775
The article is concerned with Halpern's first-order logics of probability, which we denote by L_1 and L_2 – the first of these deals with probability distributions on the domain, while the second employs distributions on external sets of possible worlds. The proofs of [Abadi & Halpern 1994] of the complexity lower bound results for L_1 and L_2 ...
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David J. L., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 22 P. 585–608.
This collective monograph explores focus on complexity aspects in Big History against the background of complexity growth in the Universe, on our planet, and in biological, social, and cultural systems. Complexity growth is regarded as the connecting thread of evolutionary development and as a leading trend of Big History. The cosmic development chapters examine symmetries ...
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Korotayev A., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 13 P. 359–409.
We have undertaken an attempt to propose a periodization of the Big History Biosocial (Anthropogenesis) Era on the basis of the most recent scientific data. This periodization is complexity-based, that is, the boundaries of the identified epochs are marked with complexity jumps, that is, in our case, such phase transitions that result in significant increases ...
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Leonid Grinin, Alexander M., Korotayev A., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 12 P. 283–355.
In the first half of this chapter, Grinin et al. survey general similarities and differences between biological and social macroevolution. They undertake a systematic comparison between biological and social evolution at different levels of analysis and in various aspects, formulating a considerable number of general principles and rules of evolution, and working to develop a ...
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David J. L., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 2 P. 29–90.
This chapter explores the role of complexity dynamics in Big History through an integrative theoretical framework that spans physical, chemical, biological, social, cognitive, and civilizational domains. Building on foundational work in systemstheory,thermodynamics,andevolutionarytheory,thechapterarguesthat complexity can serve as a conceptual bridge across disciplines. By examining how complexity emerges, is sustained, and transforms across thresholds, as well as ...
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Korotayev A., LePoire D., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 5 P. 151–171.
A previous study compared the symmetries of the cooling after the Big Bang and thedevelopment oflife, humans,and civilization on Earth. Asimple model ofthe relative rates of change depicts two cones joined at their bases representing the Big Bang expansion and the acceleration of complexity development on Earth through life evolution, human evolution, and civilization development. ...
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David J. L., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., , in: Complexity in Universal Evolution. A Big History Perspective.: Springer, 2026. Ch. 1 P. 1–25.
Complexity is widely acknowledged as a foundational and pivotal concept in Big History, offering a unifying lens through which to examine the emergence and development of systems—from particles and galaxies to life, civilizations, and beyond. Yet, despite its centrality, major gaps remain in how we define, measure, and interpret complexity across different phases and scales. ...
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David J. L., Leonid Grinin, Korotayev A., Springer, 2026.
Complexity is widely acknowledged as a foundational and pivotal concept in Big History, offering a unifying lens through which to examine the emergence and development of systems—from particles and galaxies to life, civilizations, and beyond. Yet, despite its centrality, major gaps remain in how we define, measure, and interpret complexity across different phases and scales. ...
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Evgeny A. Kanaev, Berezhnaya A., Southeast Asia: Actual Problems of Development 2026 Vol. 2 No. 2(71) P. 175–187
The article examines the significance and the place of the digital tools developed by the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) in the priorities of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV). On tracing the RCEP’s origins, evolution, and interim outcomes obtained to date, the article proceeds with assessing the efficiency of the RCEP’s digital tools to ...
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Plandin F., Temereva E., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 2025 Vol. 205 No. 2 Article zlaf139
Although Brachiopoda represent a relatively small phylum, they exhibit significant morphological diversity. One of the central issues in understanding the evolution of the ancestral brachiopod body plan pertains to the homologies among body compartments across the different brachiopod subphyla: Craniiformea, Linguliformea, and Rhynchonelliformea. In this context, the pedicle stands out as one of the most ...
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Dybskaya V., Sergeyev V., РИСК: Ресурсы, информация, снабжение, конкуренция 2025 № 2 С. 11–17
The origins and importance of supply chain management (SCM) in the modern economy are analyzed. It is shown that the USP is a continuation and development of the concept of integrated business logistics. The evolution of logistics from the 1960s to the 2000s is presented. The main functionality of the ADC for business organizations is ...
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Yerbolova A. S., Tomashchuk K., Kogan A. et al., Complexity 2026 Vol. 2026 No. 1 Article 5519690
Tis paper presents a novel approach to analyzing and grouping natural languages based on the degree of their chaoticity. It clusters 52 languages from 18 language families, according to the value of the entropy–complexity pair, to reveal the chaotic properties of semantic trajectories. Te obtained clusters appear to be closely correlated with the family of ...
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Speranski S. O., Journal of Logic and Computation 2013 Vol. 23 No. 5 P. 1035–1055
In the present article, the quantifiers over propositions are first introduced into the language for reasoning about probability, then the complexity issues for validity problems dealing with the corresponding hierarchy of probabilistic sentences are investigated. We prove, among other things, the $\Pi^1_1$-completeness for the general validity and also indicate the least level in the hierarchy ...
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Speranski S. O., Computability 2015 Vol. 4 No. 2 P. 159–174
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Speranski S. O., Studia Logica 2017 Vol. 105 No. 2 P. 407–429
The paper contains a survey on the complexity of various truth hierarchies arising in Kripke’s theory. I present some new arguments, and use them to obtain a number of interesting generalisations of known results. These arguments are both relatively simple, involving only the basic machinery of constructive ordinals, and very general. ...
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Kuznetsov S., Speranski S. O., Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 2022 Vol. 173 No. 2 Article 103057
We introduce infinitary action logic with exponentiation — that is, the multiplicative-additive Lambek calculus extended with Kleene star and with a family of subexponential modalities, which allow some of the structural rules (contraction, weakening, permutation). The logic is presented in the form of an infinitary sequent calculus. We prove cut elimination and, in the case ...
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