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Bell's Theorem: Virtual Issue
The latest virtual issue from The British Journal for the Philosophy for Science is edited by Peter J. Lewis and presents a collection of papers analysing Bell’s theorem, questioning its presuppositions, extending it, and evaluating its consequences.
Best of 2018
We've curated a reading list of 2018 highlights from our philosophy journals. Explore the most popular recent works in philosophy from the past year.
Increased Impact Factor: 2.053
The latest Journal Citation Reports® have revealed that The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science’s latest Impact Factor has risen to 2.053. To celebrate this increase we have made a selection of the most cited articles from the journal free to read online.
BJPS Popper Prize
The 2018 BJPS Popper Prize has been awarded to Jonah N. Schupbach for his article 'Robustness Analysis as Explanatory Reasoning'
Referee of the Year 2018
The editors of the BJPS are delighted to announce that Adrian Currie (Exeter) has been chosen as Referee of the Year 2018, for his willingness to act as a referee, for his timeliness in completing reports, and for the very high quality of those reports.
The Philosopher's Annual's Top Ten
The Philosopher's Annual has announced its top ten philosophy papers of 2017 which includes two papers from The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science. Read the papers for free below.
Self-Assembling Games by Jeffrey A. Barrett and Brian Skyrms
Evolution and Moral Realism by Kim Sterelny and Ben Fraser
BJPS Review of Books
The Editors are delighted to launch the BJPS Review of Books, the new home for our book reviews.
Auxiliary hypotheses
This blog covers trends in subfields of philosophy of science, current news/science stories, informal conference reports, stories from the world of academic philosophy, and offers advice from an editor’s perspective, and anything else that might take our fancy.
Recent posts include:
- Peer review or perish: The problem of free riders in philosophy
- The metaphysical status of quantities
- Compatibilism about chance and determinism
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Oxford Think Festival: Philosophy Article Collection
The article collection features speakers and topics from this year's Oxford Think Festival, and brings together some of our most inspiring and exciting minds to illuminate the big issues and ideas of our time.
Explore topics including the aesthetics of internet memes, social justice, and epistemic trespassing.
The life of culture
Sometimes culture seems to have a life of its own. You hear a pop song a few times and suddenly find yourself humming the tune, or you unthinkingly adopt the vocabulary of friends. Could it be that culture is composed entirely of memes and that, like viruses, they are adapted to enter our body and coerce it to make copies before finding a new host to parasitize?
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Inferring the unconfirmed: the no alternatives argument
Sherlock Holmes describes a crucial part of his method of solving detective cases as “when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” But do scientists use ‘no alternatives arguments’ of the kind described above? Is it justified to infer a theory’s truth from the observation that no other acceptable theory is known?
Philosophy quote quiz
How well do you know the writings of the most influential philosophers? Do you know the difference between sayings from Kant, Nietzsche, and Locke? Take the quiz to see if you can match the quote to the philosopher who said it.
