BJPS Short Reads

Can Everett justify the quantum-mechanical probabilities? By Jake Khawaja.Read the essay here.

Reuben Stern on when interventions are evidence for their non-effects.Read the essay here

Emily Adlam on whether there is a rationally compelling way to assign pure self-locating credences.Read the essay here

Stephen John on why scientists cannot, and should not, care about policymakers’ values.Read the essay here

Naftali Weinberger, Porter Williams and James Woodward on the role of worldly infrastructure. Read the full essay here

Susana Monsó and Laura Danón on what the opossum’s playing dead tells us about animal minds.Read the essay  here

David Thorstad on how to exploit someone by giving them relevant information Read the essay here:  www.thebsps.org/short-reads/exploitative-informing-thorstad/

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/

Armin W Schulz asks how humans became stand-out mind-readers Read the essay here: www.thebsps.org/short-reads/mind-reading-schulz/

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/