Alexander Pruss's Blog

Back when there was a standard meter, Kripke claimed that it was contingent a priori that the standard meter is a meter in length. This se...

Here are some non-philosophy hobby projects I’ve been doing over the break: Measuring exercise bike power output Dumping NES ROMs Adap...

Suppose P is a regular probability on (the powerset of) a finite space Ω representing my credences. A measurement M is a partition of Ω ...

In his popular book on relativity theory, Einstein says that distance is just what measuring rods measure. I am having a hard time making se...

Let’s say that I am in the lab and I am measuring some unknown value U . My best model of the measurement process involves a random additive...

Over the weekend, I was having fun with using an LED as a photodiode, and hooking it up to my oscilloscope. This can be used to measure the...

I picked up this beauty on Saturday from a generous person in Austin who was selling it on Craigslist, but gave it to me for free when it be...

This builds on, but also goes back over the ground of, my previous post. I've been playing with voting methods, or as I might pre...

Let me qualify what I'm going to say by saying that I know next to nothing about the voting literature. It's time for admissi...