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BJPS Short Reads

by British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

BJPS articles, but shorter. Also louder.

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  1. Getting to Basecamp with Everettian Quantum Mechanics

    Can Everett justify the quantum-mechanical probabilities? By Jake Khawaja. Read the essay here.

  2. Correlation, Causation, and Choice

    Reuben Stern on when interventions are evidence for their non-effects. Read the essay here

  3. Questioning Self-Location

    Emily Adlam on whether there is a rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences. Read the essay here

  4. Scientists on Tap, Not on Top

    Stephen John on why scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values. Read the essay here

  5. Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?

    Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure. Read the full essay here

  6. Death in Mind

    Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds. Read the essay here

  7. Exploitative Informing

    David Thorstad on how to exploit someone by giving them relevant information Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/exploitative-informing-thorstad/

  8. Black Holes and Reality

    Siddharth Muthukrishnan on how our philosophy of science affects our response to the information paradox Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/black-holes-muthukrishnan/

  9. Explaining Human Mind-Reading

    Armin W Schulz asks how humans became stand-out mind-readers Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/mind-reading-schulz/

  10. Ambiguous Decisions in Bayesianism and Imprecise Probability

    Mantas Radzvilas, William Peden, and Francesco De Pretis on whether imprecise beliefs lead to worse decisions under severe uncertainty Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/bayesianism-radzvilas-et-al/

  11. The Promise of Precision Medicine

    Axel Constant on whether there are alternatives to reductionism in precision psychiatry Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/precision-medicine-constant/

  12. Making Science Funding Policy Fair

    Jamie Shaw on lotteries, biases, and affirmative action Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/science-funding-shaw/

  13. Physical Dimensions Are Real

    Caspar Jacobs on why the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures is wrong Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/dimensions-are-real-jacobs/

  14. Binary Categories, Messy Individuals

    Alex Thinius and Rose Trappes on how scientists construct sex as a binary and categorical variable Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/binary-categories-thinius-trappes/

  15. Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics

    David Thorstad on what lies beyond simple rules Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/thorstad-institutionaldecisionmaking/

  16. Drawing the Line

    Davide Serpico and Valentina Petrolini on rethinking mental health and pathology through epigenetics. Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/drawing-the-line-serpico-petrolini/

  17. What Do Newtonian Forces Have to Do with the Standard Model?

    James Ladyman and Lorenzo Lorenzetti on understanding effective realism through the lens of structural realism Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/standard-model-ladyman-lorenzetti/⁠

  18. The Function of Biochemical Functions

    Francesca Bellazzi on what it means to say that a biochemical has a function. Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/biochemical-functions-bellazzi/

  19. Accuracy and Calibration

    Robert Williams and Richard Pettigrew ask how we should measure the accuracy of probabilities. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2iw

  20. Is the Free Energy Principle for Real?

    Ian Robertson, Julian Kiverstein, and Michael Kirchhoff on the literalist fallacy and realism about the free energy principle. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2iw

  21. To Err Is (Not Only) Human

    David Oderberg, Jonathan Hill, Christopher Austin, Ingo Bojak, François Cinotti, and Jon Gibbins ask what mistakes mean for philosophy and biology. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2ix

  22. Accuracy and Coherence

    David Thorstad asks if bounded agents can have both accuracy and coherence. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2ba

  23. What Cognitive Science Has Forgotten about Computation

    Analog computation, properly understood, is the best candidate for characterizing neural computation, argues Corey J Maley. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-29f.

  24. The Perfect Time to Reform Peer Review

    Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen ask how we determine what to pay attention to. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SW

  25. What If Light Doesn’t Exist?

    Mario Hubert on how an investigation of the initial-value problem challenges our view of electromagnetism. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-22Z

  26. Haecceitism, Rigid Designation, and Thermodynamic Equilibrium

    Michael te Vrugt asks if exchanging two indistinguishable particles changes anything. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-22Z

  27. How to Open Two Locks with One Key

    Eddy Keming Chen offers a new solution to the puzzles of time’s arrow and quantum ontology. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-20r.

  28. Why History Matters in Biology

    Justin Garson on the study of mechanisms and the study of history. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1LN.

  29. Mind the Gap

    Elanor Taylor on what makes a good explanation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1IZ

  30. Blurring the Line between Laws and Initial Conditions

    Caspar Jacobs on what's wrong with the pristine interpretation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1TD

  31. Why 'Not'?

    Luca Incurvati and Giorgio Sbardolini on the evolution of negation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1TT.

  32. On the Limits of Scientific Objectivity

    Richard Healey on whether there are objective facts in the quantum world. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SZ.

  33. Tune in and Find Out

    Florian J. Boge explains why it may be epistemically acceptable to tune models for experimental analysis. Read essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1U9.

  34. Models of Scientific Explanation and Inference to the Best Explanation

    Yunus Prasetya on what substantive accounts of explanation say about inference to the best explanation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1Rd

  35. Digital Humanities and the Philosophy of Science

    Oliver M Lean, Luca Rivelli, and Charles H Pence on what philosophers can learn from a ‘distant reading’ of science journals. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1Ql

  36. Against Authorship

    Josh Habgood-Coote on whether authorship is an obstacle to recognising the division of labour in science. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1NS

  37. COVID-19, Induction, and Social Epistemology

    Igor Douven on evolutionary modelling and trust in science. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1No

  38. Does Economics Need Micro-foundations?

    Nadia Ruiz and Armin W Schulz offer a complexity-based reconceptualization of the debate. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1J4

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BJPS articles, but shorter. Also louder.

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