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Is the offside rule in international football (Law 11) clear or confusing?
FYI: Here are the official guidelines for interpreting Law 11 (the offside rule in international football). Here is a useful Power Point presentation (consisting of 37 slides) explaining Law 11.
The problem of priors
Note: this is the fifth and final installment of our review of the paper “Bayesian reasoning in science” by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach. We now come to the “main event”: the problem of priors. That is, where are you … Continue reading
Lies, damned lies, and … statistics
Note: this is the fourth part of our review of the paper “Bayesian reasoning in science” by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach. (The fifth and final installment of our review shall appear on 28 June.) Let us return to Howson and Urbach’s Bayesian … Continue reading
Did Kurt Gödel really discover a loophole in the Constitution?
Our 2013 paper Gödel’s loophole considers two related questions: why have so few scholars taken Gödel’s alleged discovery seriously, and what was this possible logical contradiction in the Constitution? (Hint: it probably has to do something with recursion.) There is also … Continue reading
Beliefs are like gambles …
Note: this is the third installment of our review of the paper “Bayesian reasoning in science” by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach. Thus far, we have seen how Howson and Urbach briefly consider the relation between probability and truth (see previous … Continue reading
Truth and probability
Note: this is the second installment of our review of the paper “Bayesian reasoning in science” by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach. Following their short introduction on gambling odds (see post below for a summary), Howson and Urbach present the … Continue reading
“Bayesian reasoning in science”
That is the title of this commentary by Colin Howson and Peter Urbach published in the journal Nature on 4 April 1991. (Howson and Urbach also published a book with the title “Scientific Reasoning: The Bayesian Approach”; see the image of … Continue reading
Science bounty hunters?
Dr Christopher Keating says via his global warming website that he is willing to pay a bounty or reward of $10,000 USD to anyone who is able to disprove global warming. The official rules of this contest are thus: 1. Dr Keating will … Continue reading
How many World Cup matches are fixed?
Forty-eight matches will played during the first stage of the World Cup in the nation of Brasil. But how many, pray tell, of those “first 48” matches will be fixed or rigged in some form, e.g. by means of payoffs to … Continue reading
The case for reparations for Native Americans
Why isn’t “land theft” a crime?
