Video Series: How To Prevent Future Pandemics

  The myth of eradication Rather than being determined by a particular number of cases or deaths,  the end will require us no longer focussing on such numbers. The attitude we have towards such figures is as important to the…

I use the recent emergence of optogenetics in neuroscience as an opportunity to explore how scientists evaluate their intervention tools. I look at how scientists promoted and defended optogenetics and what they took to constitute its improvement over time. My…

This leaves our final option, which is to hold that a normatively-grounded approach to the granularity problem in causal modelling should allow for lossy compression, and that Woodward’s proportionality criterion should be modified to allow for this. As a guide…

There are many corrosive forms of discrimination. But one of the most dangerous is the bias in favour of consciousness, and the consequent denigration of the unconscious. We see it everywhere. It’s not surprising. For when we’re unreflective – which…