BJPS Short Reads
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago -BJPS articles, but shorter. Also louder.
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Drawing the Line
April 29, 2024 17:00 - 9 minutes - 18.5 MBDavide 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/
What Do Newtonian Forces Have to Do with the Standard Model?
April 15, 2024 17:40 - 8 minutes - 16 MBJames 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/
The Function of Biochemical Functions
March 05, 2024 09:39 - 7 minutes - 14.3 MBFrancesca 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/
Accuracy and Calibration
February 19, 2024 18:55 - 9 minutes - 18.4 MBRobert 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?
February 07, 2024 18:00 - 10 minutes - 20.1 MBIan 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
To Err Is (Not Only) Human
January 22, 2024 14:58 - 9 minutes - 17.2 MBDavid 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
Accuracy and Coherence
October 03, 2022 12:23 - 11 minutes - 21.4 MBDavid Thorstad asks if bounded agents can have both accuracy and coherence. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-2ba
What Cognitive Science Has Forgotten about Computation
September 11, 2022 14:33 - 9 minutes - 17.8 MBAnalog computation, properly understood, is the best candidate for characterizing neural computation, argues Corey J Maley. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-29f.
The Perfect Time to Reform Peer Review
August 29, 2022 16:53 - 8 minutes - 16.5 MBLiam Kofi Bright and Remco Heesen ask how we determine what to pay attention to. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SW
What If Light Doesn’t Exist?
August 22, 2022 16:00 - 7 minutes - 14.1 MBMario Hubert on how an investigation of the initial-value problem challenges our view of electromagnetism. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-22Z
Haecceitism, Rigid Designation, and Thermodynamic Equilibrium
May 02, 2022 16:00 - 9 minutes - 17.6 MBMichael te Vrugt asks if exchanging two indistinguishable particles changes anything. Read the essay here: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-22Z
How to Open Two Locks with One Key
March 23, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 14.7 MBEddy Keming Chen offers a new solution to the puzzles of time’s arrow and quantum ontology. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-20r.
Why History Matters in Biology
March 10, 2022 17:00 - 10 minutes - 18.8 MBJustin Garson on the study of mechanisms and the study of history. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1LN.
Mind the Gap
March 04, 2022 17:00 - 6 minutes - 13 MBElanor Taylor on what makes a good explanation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1IZ
Blurring the Line between Laws and Initial Conditions
February 23, 2022 17:00 - 8 minutes - 16.4 MBCaspar Jacobs on what's wrong with the pristine interpretation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1TD
Why 'Not'?
February 14, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes - 17.5 MBLuca Incurvati and Giorgio Sbardolini on the evolution of negation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1TT.
On the Limits of Scientific Objectivity
February 07, 2022 17:00 - 9 minutes - 18.2 MBRichard Healey on whether there are objective facts in the quantum world. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SZ.
Tune in and Find Out
January 30, 2022 23:00 - 6 minutes - 12.4 MBFlorian J. Boge explains why it may be epistemically acceptable to tune models for experimental analysis. Read essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1U9.
Models of Scientific Explanation and Inference to the Best Explanation
November 22, 2021 20:03 - 9 minutes - 18.4 MBYunus Prasetya on what substantive accounts of explanation say about inference to the best explanation. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1Rd
Digital Humanities and the Philosophy of Science
November 11, 2021 23:35 - 7 minutes - 14.5 MBOliver 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
Against Authorship
November 11, 2021 21:00 - 9 minutes - 18.1 MBJosh Habgood-Coote on whether authorship is an obstacle to recognising the division of labour in science. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1NS
COVID-19, Induction, and Social Epistemology
November 11, 2021 09:00 - 8 minutes - 15.4 MBIgor Douven on evolutionary modelling and trust in science. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1No
Does Economics Need Micro-foundations?
November 11, 2021 07:00 - 8 minutes - 16 MBNadia Ruiz and Armin W Schulz offer a complexity-based reconceptualization of the debate. Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1J4