BJPS Short Reads
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Mar 23, 2022 • 8min
How to Open Two Locks with One Key
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.
Mar 10, 2022 • 10min
Why History Matters in Biology
Justin Garson on the study of mechanisms and the study of history.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1LN.
Mar 4, 2022 • 7min
Mind the Gap
Elanor Taylor on what makes a good explanation.
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Feb 23, 2022 • 9min
Blurring the Line between Laws and Initial Conditions
Caspar Jacobs on what's wrong with the pristine interpretation.
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Feb 14, 2022 • 10min
Why 'Not'?
Luca Incurvati and Giorgio Sbardolini on the evolution of negation.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1TT.
Feb 7, 2022 • 10min
On the Limits of Scientific Objectivity
Richard Healey on whether there are objective facts in the quantum world.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1SZ.
Jan 30, 2022 • 7min
Tune in and Find Out
Florian J. Boge explains why it may be epistemically acceptable to tune models for experimental analysis.
Read essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1U9.
Nov 22, 2021 • 10min
Models of Scientific Explanation and Inference to the Best Explanation
Yunus Prasetya on what substantive accounts of explanation say about inference to the best explanation.
Read the essay: https://wp.me/paiQQ4-1Rd
Nov 11, 2021 • 8min
Digital Humanities and the Philosophy of Science
Oliver M Lean, Luca Rivelli, and Charles H Pence on what philosophers can learn from a ‘distant reading’ of science journals.
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Nov 11, 2021 • 10min
Against Authorship
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
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