BJPS Short Reads

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BJPS Short Reads episodes

June 24 Getting to Basecamp with Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Can Everett justify the quantum-mechanical probabilities? By Jake Khawaja.

Read the essay here.
11 min
April 23 Correlation, Causation, and Choice
Reuben Stern on when interventions are evidence for their non-effects.

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16 min
April 15 Questioning Self-Location
Emily Adlam on whether there is a rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences.

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13 min
April 01 Scientists on Tap, Not on Top
Stephen John on why scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values.

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15 min
March 25 Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure.

Read the full essay here
9 min
March 17 Death in Mind
Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.

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12 min
November 21, 2024 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 min
November 12, 2024 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/
13 min
November 07, 2024 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 min
October 31, 2024 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/
16 min