David Thorstad on how to exploit someone by giving them relevant information
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Siddharth Muthukrishnan on how our philosophy of science affects our response to the information paradox
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Armin W Schulz asks how humans became stand-out mind-readers
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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
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Jamie Shaw on lotteries, biases, and affirmative action
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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
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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.
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David Oderberg, Jonathan Hill, Christopher Austin, Ingo Bojak, François Cinotti, and Jon Gibbins ask what mistakes mean for philosophy and biology.
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David Thorstad asks if bounded agents can have both accuracy and coherence.
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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.
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Michael te Vrugt asks if exchanging two indistinguishable particles changes anything.
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