BJPS Short Reads

BJPS articles, but shorter. Also louder.

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/

11-21
10:02

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/

11-12
12:54

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/

11-07
09:01

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/

10-31
15:17

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/

10-24
11:28

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/

10-17
08:24

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/

10-10
10:37

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/

10-03
14:56

Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics

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

06-10
10:33

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/

04-29
09:53

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/⁠

04-15
08:32

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

02-19
09:54

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

01-22
09:08

Accuracy and Coherence

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

10-03
11:30

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.

09-11
09:34

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

08-29
08:50

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

08-22
07:25

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

05-02
09:25

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.

03-23
08:01

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.

03-10
10:08

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