Self-locating Beliefs Won’t Move Everett’s Mountain | Simon Friederich and Richard Dawid
Simon Friederich and Richard Dawid on whether rational self-locating belief solves the probability problem for Everettian quantum mechanics
BJPS articles, but shorter
Does Economics Need Micro-foundations? | Nadia Ruiz and Armin W Schulz
/in BJPS Short Reads /by Nadia Ruiz, Armin W SchulzNadia Ruiz and Armin W Schulz offer a complexity-based reconceptualization of the debate about micro-foundations in economics
Mind the Gap | Elanor Taylor
/in BJPS Short Reads, Short Reads Podcast /by Elanor TaylorElanor Taylor on what makes a good explanation
Time, and Time Again (in Thermal Physics) | Katie Robertson
/in BJPS Short Reads /by Katie RobertsonOn reducing the second law of thermodynamics
This View of Contingent Life | T. Y. William Wong
/in BJPS Short Reads /by T Y William WongGould, Evolutionary Contingency, and Mass Extinctions
Does It Matter If Hypothesizing Is Secretly Post Hoc? | Mark Rubin
/in BJPS Short Reads /by Mark RubinHARKing has mistakenly been implicated in the replication crisis and attempts to lessen HARKing may hurt science