BJPS Short Reads

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/⁠

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/

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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