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S4E5 Correlation, Causation, and Choice
Reuben Stern on when interventions are evidence for their non-effects.Read the essay here
S4E4 Questioning Self-Location
Emily Adlam on whether there is a rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences.Read the essay here
S4E3 Scientists on Tap, Not on Top
Stephen John on why scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values.Read the essay here
S4E2 Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure. Read the full essay here
S4E1 Death in Mind
Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.Read the essay here
S3E8 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/
S3E7 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/
S3E6 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/
S3E5 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:…
S3E4 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/
S3E3 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/
S3E2 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/
S3E1 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/
S2E7 Institutional Decision-Making Heuristics
David Thorstad on what lies beyond simple rules Read the essay here: https://www.thebsps.org/short-reads/thorstad-institutionaldecisionmaking/
S2E6 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/
S2E5 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:…
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/
S2E2 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
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
S2E1 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
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