Detlef Dürr, Shelly Goldstein, and Nino Zanchí once gave a very interesting argument for hidden variables. I’ll give their argument a careful reconstruction. But first, here’s what they say. According…
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by Erik Curiel (Guest Post) First is a concise statement of my problem with contemporary accounts of those semantics, as based on the idea of truth as, in some sense,…
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Not the fatty breakfast-food, although you may remember that if you like. The great Sir Francis Bacon died 384 years ago today. And in memory of Bacon, here is your…
Read moreImproving the Peer Review Process
Peer-reviewed journals have the great potential to improve the quality of published papers. Most scholars value them for this reason. But how can we make the process better? Bee has…
Read moreWatch the LHC status updates live
The Large Hadron Collider has finally begun collecting data for 7 TeV collisions. They’ve set up an interesting live feed, in which you can keep an eye on the collision…
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