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BJPS articles, but shorter. Also louder.
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Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.Read the essay here
David Thorstad on how to exploit someone by giving them relevant information
Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/exploitative-informing-thorstad/
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/
Armin W Schulz asks how humans became stand-out mind-readers
Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/mind-reading-schulz/
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/
Axel Constant on whether there are alternatives to reductionism in precision psychiatry
Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/precision-medicine-constant/
Jamie Shaw on lotteries, biases, and affirmative action
Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/science-funding-shaw/
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/
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/
David Thorstad on what lies beyond simple rules
Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/thorstad-institutionaldecisionmaking/
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/
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/
Robert Williams and Richard Pettigrew ask how we should measure the accuracy of probabilities.
Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2iw
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
David Thorstad asks if bounded agents can have both accuracy and coherence.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2ba
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.
Liam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen ask how we determine what to pay attention to.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SW
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
Michael te Vrugt asks if exchanging two indistinguishable particles changes anything.
Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-22Z
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.
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