BJPS Short Reads

By British Journal for the Philosophy of Science

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BJPS Short Reads episodes:

June 24, 2026 Getting to Basecamp with Everettian Quantum Mechanics
Can Everett justify the quantum-mechanical probabilities? By Jake Khawaja.

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11min
April 23, 2026 Correlation, Causation, and Choice
Reuben Stern on when interventions are evidence for their non-effects.

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16min
April 15, 2026 Questioning Self-Location
Emily Adlam on whether there is a rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences.

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13min
April 01, 2026 Scientists on Tap, Not on Top
Stephen John on why scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values.

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15min
March 25, 2026 Why Does Causal Reasoning Work?
Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure.

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9min
March 17, 2026 Death in Mind
Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.

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12min
November 21, 2024 Exploitative Informing
David Thorstad on how to exploit someone by giving them relevant information

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11min
November 12, 2024 Black Holes and Reality
Siddharth Muthukrishnan on how our philosophy of science affects our response to the information paradox

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13min
November 07, 2024 Explaining Human Mind-Reading
Armin W Schulz asks how humans became stand-out mind-readers

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10min
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

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16min

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